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Your favorate flop?
&OneForMahler
Understudy Joined: 6/27/06
#100re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/28/07 at 6:07pm
Lennon.
Chess.
Seussical.
<--- me & Erin Davie =)
omigod, omigod you guys...
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#102re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/28/07 at 8:00pmBefore most of you were born - Alfred Drake in KEAN. Hence my title...
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#103re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/28/07 at 8:32pm
Some of mine are:
1. Bajour
2. Baker Street
3. Steel Pier
4. Inner City
5. Superman
6. Rockabye Hamlet
7. Lestat
8. Gantry
Poster Emeritus
stagegrrrl
Leading Actor Joined: 1/22/07
#104re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/28/07 at 8:50pmi heard that lestat was unintentionally HILARIOUS
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#106re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:25pm
SMILE
This one I think could find an audience now. Perhaps not on Broadway..but like CHICAGO, we've lived though what the show was pointing out and now we "get it."
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
#107re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:55am
YAY. purpleprince 101, mr roxy!
Its nice to see some Steel Pier love out there, its one of my very favorite shows, i just want to direct and star in it so much, i know i'd do it right. lol.
"...and in a bed."
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#108re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 6:04amChess.
I'm not a gay stereotype. I'm a coincidence.
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#109re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:16am
Seussical
The Woman in White
Triumph of Love
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
I thought, if you aren't considering financially, a show is a success if it runs for 500 performances or more?
how funny that my last trip to NYC contained two of my four flops!
#110re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:55am
Yeah, 500 performances used to be the standard because in the "golden days" that was usually the length of time it took a show to earn back its production costs and show a healthy profit.
Now it seems that 5,000 is the standard...
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Updated On: 1/29/07 at 08:55 AM
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#111re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:57amHonestly, I think 500 performances should still be the drawing line for flops, and screw the financial thing. In today's society the notion of most productions making back the money is almost laughable, and you would have to constitute some shows that really were not flops, as such.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#112re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:22am
I loved The Times They are a Changin!!!
I must have been the only one... :)
"Now she wants to know WHY, if I'm so fabulous, I would WANT to take care of her child.....I answer with as much filigree and insouciance as I can muster, trying to slightly cock my head like Snow White listening to the animals. She, in turn, is aiming for more of a Diane-Sawyer-pose, looking for answers which will confirm that I am not there to steal her husband, jewelry, friends, or child. In that order."
The Nanny Diaries
uwho
Chorus Member Joined: 9/16/06
#113re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:26pmI LOVED "The Times They Are a Changin". It was pure genius, pure entertainment. Thankyou Twyla.
#114re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:34pm
I enjoyed the following:
Mail
Smile
Honky Tonk Nights
And of course Carrie!!
....but the world goes 'round
#115re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:48pm
In today's society the notion of most productions making back the money is almost laughable, and you would have to constitute some shows that really were not flops, as such.
If the shows didn't make back their money, they really were flops. And it is possible for shows to break even these days and some manage to do it in less than 500 shows.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#116re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:17pmOf course there are productions that make back their money relatively quickly - DROWSY, the recent SWEENEY revival, the current CHORUS LINE, for example, all recouped in less than a year. But then you have shows like THE LION KING which took nearly 5 years to make its money back, and other shows that run for 2 years or more and still close in the red, like THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. So it really begs the question - how are these shows financed and where does the money actually go? Maybe you really can make more money with a flop!
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#117re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:36pm
did anyone say, in my life?
because i feel like i am so out of the loop on that show, and i searched different places including IBDB.com and it didn't give me any synopsis on what it was about?! not fair!
anyone?
please & thank you! =)
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
#118re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 2/4/07 at 1:44am
"Christopher Marlowe
Of all I've met
Night and day, in every way, he's the strongest yet.
Straight boys and gay boys
They only mind he's the sting of a bee, boys
Christopher
When all is lost, he'll find a way, boys
Christopher's the one!
Oh, he may be a blighter
That's Christopher!
But he doesn't give up, he's a hell of a fighter
Christopher
Red necks and hard heads
Stop in their tracks to hear what the bar says
Christopher
King of the theater, number one fighter
Chsitopher, Christopher.
He's a 16th century man, with a 20th century mind
Ain't it the same, but his mother's to blame, he was born before his time!"
-Lisa Mordente in MARLOWE, 1981
#119re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 2/6/07 at 8:48pmLestat, mostly for the incredibly talented cast.
JemimaPearl
Understudy Joined: 5/12/05
#120re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 2/6/07 at 8:50pm
Starlight Express and Lestat
"Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good." -Terrence Mann
Updated On: 2/6/07 at 08:50 PM
Danielm
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
#122re: Your favorite flop?
Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:24pmShe Loves Me.
Yes, we do need a third vampire musical.--Little Sally, Gypsy of the Year 2005.
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