Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:42pm
Legs Diamond
Lestat
DOTV
Poster Emeritus
#2re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:43pmTHE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pmIn some ways, BKLYN.
puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#3re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pmOne really big one was the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's -= Holly Golightly with Mary Tyler Moore. Didn't even officially open.
It Sucks To Be Me
#4re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:47pm
Personally, I had SUCH high hopes for 'The Pirate Queen'. WHOOPS. ^_^
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#5re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
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.
#6re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:49pmGONE WITH THE WIND
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#8re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:04pmMartin Guerre
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#9re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:07pmi actually was excited for Cry Baby, and now it will close before i have a chance to see it
"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#10re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:15pm
Shocked I'm the first to say it:
Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#11re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:19pm
Why shocked? Half of BWW's members weren't out of diapers when that opened. 
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#12re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:21pm
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Pleasures & Palaces
Mata Hari
Poster Emeritus
#13re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:22pmI 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.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#14re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:28pmCan we include The Princess Bride? It never even made it to the stage, and so many were looking forward to it (including myself!)
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#15re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
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.
lotiloti
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#17re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
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.
#18re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:25pmHa, 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....
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#19re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:26pmTarzan and the Little Mermaid were both very hyped.
#20re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:44pmWell Little Mermaid didn't crash and burn.
#21re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:47pmMermaid will run at least as long as Aida did.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#22re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:49pm
"Andrew Lloyd Webber's big return to Broadway": THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Broadway version!)
The Scarlet Pimpernel - SP3
#23re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:52pm
"Half of BWW's members weren't out of diapers when that opened. "
Neither was he. lol
For me personally I'd say Lestat and The Pirate Queen
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
Updated On: 6/22/08 at 02:52 PM
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#24re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:05pm
Young Frankenstein (Well it will...)
Glory Days
A Class Act (Financially, anyway...)
Tarzan
