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GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?

Eris0303

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#51
Posted: 1/28/08 at 5:32am

There are so many great songs I this list! There are some that have been mentioned by other posters that I want to mention again because I love them so much.

Not a Day Goes By
Meadowlark
Braver Than We Are
There Won't Be Trumpets
Anyone Can Whistle

I'd like to add:

No Matter What - Whistle Down the Wind
Everybody Says Don't - Anyone Can Whistle
Candle in the Window - The Civil War
Storybook - Scarlet Pimpernel

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#52
Posted: 1/28/08 at 6:06am

Anthem from Chess
When there's no one from Carrie
And Eve was weak from Carrie

So many people on the board love the Carrie music!!!! I thought I was alone....

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#53
Posted: 1/28/08 at 8:12am

"And Eve Was Weak," "Out For Blood," "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance," "Destruction" - CARRIE
"Manic Depressives (Don't Do Re-Writes") - PRETTYBELLE
"Fifty Percent" - BALLROOM
"Picture Show" - BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC
"The Kid Inside" (Solo Arrangement) - IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL?
Most of SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#54
Posted: 1/28/08 at 8:19am

I Think I Can Play This Part - The Goodbye Girl
Change In Me - Whorehouse Goes Public
Sherry - Sherry
Blank Piece Of Paper - Mail
In The Name Of Love - Welcome To The Club

....but the world goes 'round

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#55
Posted: 1/28/08 at 8:25am

"I Want More" -LESTAT

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. -Anthony Rapp-

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#56
Posted: 1/28/08 at 9:51am

Oh! Oh! And "Secrets" from IN MY LIFE! (How could I forget *that* delightful trainwreck?)

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#57
Posted: 1/28/08 at 10:30am

"Someone Else's Story" - CHESS
The entire score of Taboo is great
"The Oldest Profession" - THE LIFE
"Easy Money" - THE LIFE
"Use What You Got" - THE LIFE
Any songs from Sondheim flops are incredible.

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#58
Posted: 1/28/08 at 10:41am

Lestat:

Sail Me Away
Welcome to the New World
After All This Time
Right Before My Eyes

The score of Chess (or at least what was left of it when it came to Broadway)

The Ten Commandments:

The Horns of Jericho

Side Show:

You Should Be Loved
Who Will Love Me As I Am
Private Conversation
I Will Never Leave You

Jane Eyre:

I love the whole score but these songs really stick out for me:

Sweet Liberty
Sirens

The Woman in White:

I Believe My Heart
All For Laura
Evermore Without You

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Updated On: 1/28/08 at 10:41 AM

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#59
Posted: 1/28/08 at 11:02am

Everything from...

Carrie
Caroline Or Change
Side Show

Songs...
Here, Really Here-Sayonara
Nothing Really Happened-Is There Life after High School
Astonishing/Chance on Me-Little Women
Disneyland-Smile
Caught by Suprise- Wedding Singer
Our Story Goes On/2 People in Love- Baby (flop?)
All Grown Up/Role of a Lifetime- Bare
I want more -Lestat
There wont be trumpets/Everybody says dont-Anyone Can Whistle

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#60
Posted: 1/28/08 at 1:40pm

"Everybody says Don't" ANYONE CAN WHISTLE

"Forever Yours" "Waiting for Life" ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

Most of LITTLE WOMEN especially "Astonishing" "Somethings are Meant to Be" "Small Umbrella in the Rain" and I personally like, "The Weekly Volcano Press" Thank god Suttons performances are perserved on the album. :)

"Not a Day Goes By"

I dont know if you want to consider LONE STAR LOVE a flop since it didnt make it to broadway, but it was schueduled to go to broadway. it got canceled after seattle. I saw it in seattle and loved the score. Highlights: "Count on my Love" "Prairie Moon" "World of Men" "Texas Wind" "Carry me Home"

Most of JANE EYRE

Updated On: 1/28/08 at 01:40 PM

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#61
Posted: 1/28/08 at 1:49pm

Stomp The Blues Away
Sparrow
A Man Of Many Parts
all from Honky Tonk Nights

Timing - Grind

....but the world goes 'round

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#62
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:09pm

Piece of the Pie - The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public

"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#63
Posted: 1/28/08 at 6:04pm

"Someone Else's Story" - Chess
"Nobody's Side" - Chess
"Whistle Down the Wind" - Whistle Down the Wind
EVERYTHING from THE WOMAN IN WHITE!

And I could name a bunch of songs form the huge finicial flop of SUNSET BOULEVARD, or the finicial flop of JEKYLL & HYDE, but I figure those shows really shouldn't be considered flops (maybe Sunset?!).

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#64
Posted: 1/28/08 at 6:09pm

Right in front of your eyes - wedding singer
nobody's side - chess
Everything that i am - Tarzan

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#65
Posted: 1/28/08 at 6:33pm

This Metropolis musical everyone's mentioning--what is it? No relation to the Fritz Lang film, is there?

You've Got Possibilities--Superman

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#66
Posted: 1/28/08 at 6:58pm

"Godspeed Titanic" - Titanic

"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#67
Posted: 1/29/08 at 7:33pm

From CHESS:
Nobody's Side
Someone Else's Story

From WOMAN IN WHITE:
All for Laura
Evermore Without You

From DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES:
For Sarah
Braver Than We Are
Red Boots Ballet

From THE PIRATE QUEEN:
Woman
The Sea of Life
The Wedding Ring/the Christening
Woman to Woman
Sail to the Stars
...ok, pretty much everything

From DRACULA:
Over Whitby Bay (really pretty song!)
Life After Life

From LITTLE WOMEN:
Some Things Are Meant to Be

"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#68
Posted: 1/29/08 at 7:51pm

The Thirteenth of April from Loving Repeating

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#69
Posted: 1/29/08 at 9:04pm

"Who Will Love Me as I Am?" SIDE SHOW

How Do You Document Real Life When Real Life's Getting More Like Fiction Each Day??

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#70
Posted: 1/29/08 at 10:07pm

Fifty Percent - Ballroom

Now living in DC. I really have to change my name on the board.

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#71
Posted: 1/30/08 at 5:42pm

Chess:
Anthem
Nobody's Side
Someone Else's Story
Heaven Help My Heart

"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...." -Wonderwaiter

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#72
Posted: 1/31/08 at 10:48am

In-Carrie
And Eve Was Weak-Carrie
Garlic-DOTV
Braver Than We Are-DOTV
Dress to Kill-Taboo
Right On Time-The Wedding Singer

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#73
Posted: 1/31/08 at 11:47am

Garlic? A "great" song? With lyrics like this, somehow I doubt it:

Garlic, garlic, the secret of staying young
Garlic, garlic, it's why we're so well hung

DOTV is so hilarious

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re: GREAT songs from FLOP musicals?#74
Posted: 1/31/08 at 4:09pm

ScaryWarhol, yes, the Metropolis musical IS actually about the Fritz Lang film. It is a musical adaption by, guess who... "In my Life" creator Joe Brooks.

But it has a few decent songs in the score. Not too many though in my opinion.

"When I think of the era in which I was raised
And I see how the world's gone to waste,
I confess that I'm constantly shocked and amazed
At man's singular lack of good taste.

For taste is like justice - we live by her laws.
It's so easy to tell right from wrong.
Most people don't bother;
Most people are whores.
And a few bores who do, don't for long."
(The Roar of the Greasepaint...: "So many Things to remember (Repr.)")