Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Amaethon
Swing Joined: 10/4/16
#1Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 2:42pm
Phantom of the Opera was huge. Jekyll and Hyde was a success.
So what went wrong with the Broadway versions of these classic horror stories?
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#2Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 2:45pm
Horror is a hard genre to musicalize. You have exceptions, like Sweeney Todd, Phantom, and Jekyll and Hyde, but it's hard to combine the sensationalism of terror with the sensationalism of singing and dancing.
#3Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 2:46pm
Jekyll and Hyde didn't recoup despite a 3+ year run, so labeling it a "success" is up for debate. The retooled revival in 2013 opened and closed in a blink.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 10/4/16 at 02:46 PM
#4Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 2:51pm
Jason Ginsburg, did you join today just to spread your blog post wider? How enterprising!
#5Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 2:51pm
I really wouldn't consider Sweeney, Phantom, or Jekyll and Hyde to even be horror, per se.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#7Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 3:15pm
ROCKY HORROR flopped. It's a spoof of the genre and also sic-fi though.
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Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#8Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 3:24pm
Would love to see Toxic Avenger get a chance to flop/succeed on Broadway. Heard they were going to try and bring the Houston 2012 cast in but there's been no news for a while.
Willie4316
Leading Actor Joined: 9/12/16
#9Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 3:58pm
The English version of Dance of the Vampires was a sick joke. If done faithful to the Austrian/German one, it's an absolutely amazing show that would do well here or in the West End
#10Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 7:12pm
West End, maybe. Here, the brand is tainted. People still bring it up constantly as a reason vampire musicals "don't work." No one would be willing to risk investment money on it here. (Trust me, I know for a fact. You can PM me if you really want the gory details.)
Formerly gvendo2005
Broadway Legend
joined: 5/1/05
Blocked: After Eight, suestorm, david_fick, emlodik, lovebwy, Dave28282, joevitus, BorisTomashevsky
Broadway Legend
joined: 5/1/05
Blocked: After Eight, suestorm, david_fick, emlodik, lovebwy, Dave28282, joevitus, BorisTomashevsky
Willie4316
Leading Actor Joined: 9/12/16
#11Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 7:21pm
Very true. I just hope that someday there's an English language production of it, otherwise I'm gonna have to brush up on my German.
#12Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 7:44pm
I don't know if and who's opinion of horror, but there's Carrie, The Woman In White, Love Never Dies,Ghost (?) , Lizzie Borden. Eye of the beholder I guess, some become cult classics.
I Can Has Cheezburger With This?
#13Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/4/16 at 10:36pm
Anyone who thinks Dracula the Musical was faithful to the book has not read the book.
Updated On: 10/4/16 at 10:36 PM
jbird5
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/15
#14Three Horror Musicals That Flopped
Posted: 10/5/16 at 6:15pm
I think you have to throw American Psycho in there too.
