FLOP MUSICAL Alert
FLOP MUSICAL Alert
#0FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:31pm
Okay. I hope I'm wrong. And if I am, I will absolutely eat my words. I truly do want new musicals to succeed...But can this show possibly be anything other then a classic flop?
From Broadway.com:
"Beginning performances September 27 at the Music Box and opening there on October 20 is IN MY LIFE, featuring book, music, lyrics, and direction by Joe Brooks, who is best known for the Academy Award-winning title song of the film You Light Up My Life, a picture Brooks also wrote and directed.
The ad copy describes In My Life as "the slightly dysfunctional story of a musician with Tourettes, a girl with OCD, and the one affliction they share---true love."
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#2re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:34pmNo cast has been announced. But maybe we'll get a demo from DEBBY BOONE
#3re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:36pm
I remember when that horrible song was inescapable.
OMG--It's coming back into my head!
So he speaks inappropriately and she cleans up after him--
I sense great potential.
Updated On: 7/27/05 at 02:36 PM
#4re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:38pmYeah I sense great potential too...for the second coming of INTO THE LIGHT and PRINCE OF CENTRAL PARK.
Mimi Imfurst
Broadway Star Joined: 10/9/04
#5re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:17pm
cause you.... light up my life...
you give me hope to carry on...
you light up my days
and fill my nights with song.
It can't be wrong when it feels so right
Cause you.... you light up my life.
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SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#6re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:19pmThis is gonna make Brooklyn look like Sweeney Todd.
PEACE.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:23pm
This has to be a joke, right? Please God tell me it's a joke!
If it's for real, PLEASE let there be a big production number sung by the Tourettes sufferer where their explosive profanity becomes part of the number!
This has more Camp potential than Carrie!
#8re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:47pm
Coming to bookstores December 2006: Ken Mandelbaum's "Not Since IN MY LIFE"!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Updated On: 7/27/05 at 03:47 PM
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#9re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:47pm
The Mambo Kings: conceived, book co-authored, lyrics and direction by a newcomer to the stage and they were all the same person. This musical collapses on the road without getting closer to town than SF.
In My Life (a ripped-off title as ever was, that makes ticket buyers think its by Lennon-McCartney): book, score, direction (and probably financed at least in part) all by the same person who has never done any of these chores for a stage show before now. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
If you are curious, really really curious, I'd go the first week because the second week might be pre-empted shall we say.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#10re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:49pmThanks! I just spit water outta my mouth! Hey, Debby will be done with CAMELOT by then. To quote BobbyBubby, This makes me vomit a little in my mouth.
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#11re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:51pm
Guy: So, I have to tell you how much I l....BALL HAIR!
Girl: Oh, it's SOOO long, I'll have to snip it!
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#12re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:53pmIs Kathy Lee associated with this project in any way?
PEACE.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#13re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 3:57pm
Even though this project hasn't seen the light of day yet, let us not be TOO bitchy.
What goes around and all that.
I wonder what show has its eye on the Music Box for a January opening?
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#14re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 4:08pm
"the slightly dysfunctional story of a musician with Tourettes, a girl with OCD, and the one affliction they share---true love."
Is the APA producing it or what? I just want to cross out "true love" and write Prozac instead.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#15re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/27/05 at 11:56pm
Did anyone else see the full-page ad that Joe Brook's son took out in the NY Times a few months ago? It was weird.
I don't know. Maybe it was supposed to get people thinking fondly of him or something...you know so that they would want to buy tickets when this show is produced. Do I sound slightly cynical? I shouldn't; I'm just really SCARED!
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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#16re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/28/05 at 12:33amnot all shows that sound bad on paper are (see Urinetown, for example), but the creative team (or lack of one) for this show spell disaster.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#17re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/28/05 at 12:40am
Perhaps, but at least URINETOWN was supposed to be funny. What are these people thinking? Start with the question, "Is this a good idea for a musical?" If yes, (and that is really stretching it) question #2, "How do we market this thing." Once you have that figured out ask yourself this very important question, "Who in their right minds would want to see this?"
Now MENOPAUSE:THE MUSICAL sounds just dreadful and you couldn't pay me to sit through it, but at least half of their audience can relate to the subject matter. This one will be interesting to watch.
PEACE.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#18re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/28/05 at 12:41am
Suzanna Somers is available,
oh wait, the tour
Who is playing the Tourette guy?
Have there been NYC auditions for ths Show?
#19re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/28/05 at 1:49amI hate to say it, but this might have some potential. It's either going to be REALLY REALLY good, or painfully, wretchedly, horribly bad. I don't like to make up my mind about a show before it comes out, but this might have "Lord of the Rings: The Musical" written all over it...
I hold a degree in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. It is useless. Now I'm funny for money. Oh, and I sing.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#20re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/28/05 at 1:52am
"This is gonna make Brooklyn look like Sweeney Todd."
then what's it gonna make sweeney todd look like?
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#23re: FLOP MUSICAL Alert
Posted: 7/28/05 at 4:17am
"Jessica Boevers, Christopher Hanke, Roberta Gumbel and Chiara Navarra will be among cast members of the new Broadway musical, In My Life, beginning Sept. 27."
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94261.html
As much as I always try to keep an open mind about any new show coming to Broadway or anywhere else, having someone who is a total neophyte to Broadway directing and being solely responsible for the book, music and lyrics is 99.9999% a recipe for a complete and utter disaster.
Why does "Not Since Carrie" come to mind?
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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