When Has Lightning Struck Twice on Broadway?

[FOAnatic]

I was thinking today about those situations where creative teams have come together to try and replicate their success after they've achieved a critical and financial smash on Broadway.

Brooks and Stroman tried with "Young Frankenstein" and didn't even achieve a fraction of the success as the first time 'round.

O'Brien, Mitchell, Shaiman and Wittman tried with "Catch Me If You Can" with not nearly the same result.

But, for the life of me, I'm trying to think of a situation when it actually worked.

When has a team been able to make lightning strike twice?

[Leadingplayer]

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hal Prince

Sondheim and Hal Prince

[FOAnatic]

Heh. Can't believe those didn't occur to me.

[morosco]

Probably most famous would be Michael Bennett, Robin Wagner, Theoni V. Aldridge, and Tharon Musser. A Chorus Line (hit), Ballroom (flop), Dreamgirls (hit).

[Matt2]

Sondheim and Lapine
Not all the shows were financial successes, but many were critically lauded and won several awards: ex. Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion.

[fashionguru_23]

Bartlett Sher, Kelli O'Hara, Matthew Morrison, Catherine Zuber, etc. (The Light In The Piazza and South Pacific)

[Matt2]

Also, Kander & Ebb and Harold Prince.
Flora, the Red Menace (flop, but it won Liza Minnelli a Tony Award), Cabaret (hit), Zorba (mixed), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (not exactly a big hit but it won Best Musical).

I suppose this brings up another great collaboration: Kander & Ebb and Liza Minnelli.

[chewy5000]

And Chita Rivera

[Matt2]

Yes, and Chita Rivera. Both ladies seem perfectly suited to so many of the songs Kander and Ebb wrote.

Maury Yeston and Tommy Tune had two hits together: Nine and Grand Hotel.

[best12bars]

Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rouben Mamoulian, and Agnes de Mille - Oklahoma! and Carousel

[best12bars]

Adler & Ross, George Abbott, and Bob Fosse - The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees

[AEA AGMA SM]

You have to wonder if Adler & Ross, Abbott, and Fosse would have been able to continue the streak had Jerry Ross not passed away after Damn Yankees.

[Leadingplayer]

Jessica Tandy and Hume Croyn!

[best12bars]

AEA -- it's so sad to think he died when he was just 29 years old, yet he wrote two smash hits, back to back with Adler, on Broadway.

Who knows what they could have accomplished had he lived?