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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#2
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pm

In some ways, BKLYN.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#3
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pm

One really big one was the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's -= Holly Golightly with Mary Tyler Moore. Didn't even officially open.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#4
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:47pm

Personally, I had SUCH high hopes for 'The Pirate Queen'. WHOOPS. ^_^

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#5
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:49pm

STEEL PIER - before it opened, it was considered the odds-on Tony favorite - the show to beat. It got the most noms - 11 - and won zero.

Besides the fact that it wasn't very good, it suffered from comparison to the revival of CHICAGO that opened a few months earlier. It was as if the entire world was being reminded that Kander & Ebb were no longer as good as they had been 25 years earlier.

And if there hadn't been a Chicago revival, Karen Ziemba would DEFINITELY have won the Tony, despite being in a mediocre show.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#6
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:49pm

GONE WITH THE WIND

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#7
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:00pm

IRENE

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#8
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:04pm

Martin Guerre

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#9
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:07pm

i actually was excited for Cry Baby, and now it will close before i have a chance to see it

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#10
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:15pm

Shocked I'm the first to say it:
Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#11
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:19pm

Why shocked? Half of BWW's members weren't out of diapers when that opened. re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#12
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:21pm

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#13
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:22pm

I actually saw that trainwreck...and am proud of it! Two others that opened out of town in DC and were a hot mess - Shogun and Whistle Down The Wind.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#14
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:28pm

Can we include The Princess Bride? It never even made it to the stage, and so many were looking forward to it (including myself!)

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#15
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:02pm

A Catered Affair from this past season.

Tarzan is another from a few years back.

Merrily We Roll Along certainly brought an end to the string of Sondheim-Prince celebrations.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#16
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:14pm

Carrie

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#17
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:16pm

Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang.

People figured it would run for years. Instead, it become the costliest flop in Broadway history.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#18
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:25pm

Ha, when Chitty Chitty came out my friend went to see it. It wasn't bad, just extremely forgetable. I wasn't sure whether to list Carrie or not, because apparantly lot of people had a precognition that it would flop. Maybe it was anticipated until Terry Hands and Debbie Allen signed on. Here's some: Kwamina, Kelly, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Thou Shalt Not, Prettybelle, Dear World, Goldilocks. I love flop musicals....

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#19
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:26pm

Tarzan and the Little Mermaid were both very hyped.

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re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#20
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:44pm