Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
#1Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 10:48pm
What recent flops (mid 2000's-now) with great scores are obvious choices for an Encores! production years from now?
I believe the two that stand out the most are
1. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
2. Bridges of Madison County
Two great Tony nominated scores that have gained cult followings. The Scottsboro Boys is also another likely contender.
What are some others?
Updated On: 5/18/14 at 10:48 PM
#2Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 10:50pmHands on a Hardbody, perhaps?
#2Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 10:53pmI would be at Encores Women on the Verge in a heartbeat. That show was so fun.
#3Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 10:56pm
They did Superman recently. Maybe Spider-Man in 25 years when it becomes a classic?
Updated On: 5/18/14 at 10:56 PM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:01pm
Not with that score.
Add to that it would be impossible for them to stage.
Poster Emeritus
#5Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:04pmHow would it be impossible to stage as a concert?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:15pm
As a concert yes
Any resemblance such as was done with Superman and Irma would be impossible.
Poster Emeritus
#7Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:19pm
9 to 5
Seussical
Scandalous
The Pirate Queen
Big Fish
First Date
Lysistrata Jones
Bring It On
Cry Baby
Catch Me If You Can
Bonnie and Clyde
Legally Blonde
Parade
Soul Doctor
Young Frankenstein
#8Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:24pmI thought of Bonnie & Clyde which I loved but I figured they would know that people would give them sh!t for calling a Wildhorn show a "great American musical" even though it's his best work.
#9Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:27pm
There's not many musicals on that list (no offense) that will be considered "great American musicals" or even scores.
Although I can see them doing "Catch Me if You Can" someday.
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#10Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/18/14 at 11:34pmJust remembered that VERGE was the score to shut CATCH ME out of a best score nomination.
#11Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 12:03am
The more I listen to the WOMEN'S ON THE VERGE cast album, the more I think that somewhere in there there was something interesting. "Model Behavior" is brilliant, and there's a few other inspired moments. Maybe Encores! can do a fantastic job with it in a decade or so.
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE would be the main one I'd like them to do in a few years from now with Anika Noni Rose as Caroline.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#12Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 12:19amMaybe if they do Seussical they could restore the Lorax number! It's total irrelevance to the plot wouldn't matter in a concert setting.
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#13Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 2:09amWomen on the Verge is one of the cast recordings that I can not get tired of.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#14Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 2:30am
"people would give them sh!t for calling a Wildhorn show a "great American musical" even though it's his best work."
Someone doing their best work doesn't make it great.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#15Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 2:38am
9 to 5
Seussical
Scandalous
The Pirate Queen
Big Fish
First Date
Lysistrata Jones
Bring It On
Cry Baby
Catch Me If You Can
Bonnie and Clyde
Legally Blonde
Parade
Soul Doctor
Young Frankenstein
Lol, that list is more like the ones they will NEVER do.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#16Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 2:48am
The Scottsboro Boys doesn't need a concert, they need to get the west end production filmed. It is perfect as it is, plus the show wouldn't lend itself to concert staging.
I could see:
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
PARADE
SEUSSICAL
BERNARDA ALBA
SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE
GIANT
MARIE CHRISTINE
THE WILD PARTY (The good version)
Anything regarding shows stated by this account is an attempt to convey opinion and not fact.
#17Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 3:01am
I could see them possibly doing Giant or Marie Christine but not so much See What I Wanna See unless it was part of something like Off Center...that show is far too small for the main part of their season.
And I think Women on the Verge is a fantastic show somewhere in there...the score is great, I've really grown to love the cast recording. I still think the main issue with what was on Broadway was the production rather than the material. It was a giant mess but still incredibly fun when I saw it early in previews, and from what I've heard it improved at least marginally as they made changes throughout previews.
#18Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 5:55am
Sweet Smell of Success
High Fidelity
....but the world goes 'round
#19Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 6:20amI assume the "good version" of the WILD PARTY is the Michael John Lachiusa version?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#20Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 6:38amThe very first thought that came to my mind when I read the thread title was "Women on the Verge." I'd love to see a concert version as two of the worst aspects of the show would likely be eliminated: the silly accents and the sillier sets.
#21Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 7:19am
Light in the Piazza
Grey Gardens
The Story of My Life in the summer Off-Broadway series
What about some shows from the (early) 80s? Enough time has passed to start including some of them.
Baby
The Tap Dance Kid
A little risky- A Doll's Life
They would never, but here's to hoping- Dance a Little Closer
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#22Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 7:44am
"The Story of My Life in the summer Off-Broadway series "
Except it was on Broadway.
"What about some shows from the (early) 80s?"
30+ years ago is "recent?"
#23Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 8:09am
I realize The Story of My Life was on Broadway, but it fits better in the summer series so I'm making the executive decision to include it there.
I didn't say the 80s were recent. I said enough time has passed (30+ years) to start including them in the program. I was throwing my own question out there without starting a new thread, which I would have guessed you would appreciate. I know how upset you get when people clog up the board with "useless" threads.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#24Recent flops that will be future Encores! shows...
Posted: 5/19/14 at 8:12am
How could I forget Grey Gardens? Another ideal candidate.
I don't think Piazza would be considered a flop though. It ran over a year and won 6 Tonys. Wasn't it a pretty big success for LCT? It seems like a show that will get a full fledged revival someday. Wouldn't Kelli O'Hara make a great Margaret in the future?
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