Favorite Flop
Favorite Flop
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#0Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 1:49pm
Searched, didn't see a thread, so here goes.
What's everyone's favorite flop, play and/or musical?
#1re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 1:50pm
Carrie.
And my thread: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=857685#1216834 re: flops
Updated On: 7/21/05 at 01:50 PM
#2re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 2:11pm
Side Show, Taboo, Sunset Blvd, Mack & Mabel, & Carrie
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
Updated On: 7/21/05 at 02:11 PM
#3re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 2:11pmChess
The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.
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#5re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 2:24pm
1. Carrie
2. Side Show
3. Chess
4. Taboo
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broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#9re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 2:55pm
Seussical
Ragtime
What do you mean by "flop"? Didn't recoup?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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Lome2
Stand-by Joined: 1/23/05
#11re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 3:29pmwas sunset blvd a flop?
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#13re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 3:36pmSunset lost MILLIONS and nearly led to Webber closing his Really Useful Company (he was forced to lay off a lot of staff).
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Radioactiveduck
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#14re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:38pm
I think I'm the only person in the world who thought Dracula really wasn't all that bad. It had problems, but could be easily be remidied by a month off for re-writes.
Was Brooklyn a flop? I really liked it, but it didn't do so well.
#16re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:42pm
No, Radio.
I think I am one of the biggest Dracula fans. And proud of it!
But alas, I don't consider it a flop....
Updated On: 7/21/05 at 05:42 PM
#17re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:44pm
"Sunday in the Park with George"
"P.S. Your Cat is Dead"
"Gypsy" (Peters)
"Safe Sex"
"The Lion in Winter"
#18re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:48pm
Carrie
Chess
Jane Eyre
Scarlet Pimpernel
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#19re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:55pmBOMBAY DREAMS WAS AMAZING..MAYBE NOT A HIT LIKE IN LONDON...BUT I DONT KNOW IF IT COULD BE CALLED A "FLOP".
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#20re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 5:55pm
Dance of the Vampires
Side Show
Taboo
i'm gonna get my butt kicked, but i didn't think Good Vibrations was THAT bad. yeah it had flaws, but the music and cast were great.
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Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#22re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 6:00pmThe Scarlet Pimpernel
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
#23re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 6:38pmIt's not REALLY a flop in my eyes..and it's the only one I've ever seen...Little Women..I loved it..esp. Sutton!
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#24re: Favorite Flop
Posted: 7/21/05 at 6:41pmI also liked Dracula.
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