I'm interested in hearing from anyone out there that may have recordings of a few of the flops that we got see. The musicals I'm interested in include: A Change in the Heir Chu Chem Starmites High Society The Red Shoes Footloose Triumph of Love Most of these shows had one or two moments of worthiness and I would love to add them to my collection of shows that we saw. I'm particularly interested in Starmites, as when I moved back to the West Coast I lost my Tony Award telecast tapes. That included the priceless comments from Nell Carter when she came on stage following the presentation of the scene from Starmites. I have Betty's solo recordings of two songs from Triumph, but I'm interested in the entire cast recording.
I used to have a cassette of the OBC recording of Angel, that was only sold through the producer's office, but now I just have a live recording. It's just OK, but the sound quality is pretty good.
This guy on ioffer.com appears to have a lot of unusual recordings... ioffer
Thanks to all you guys for providing me information on some of my requests for my Broadway flop file. I know I'm setting myself up for an avalanche of messages... I don't consider myself naive about Broadway from the late 70s til current, but I have no idea what you guys are talking about with Gwynne and Sternhagen in "Angel." I so miss all the time I used to spend at Footlight Records. Those guys tuned me in to so many past musicals but I have no recal of them relling me about "Angel." The other flop musical i forgot to ask you guys about is Smile." I have recordings of "Disneyland" but I'm interested in the entire OBCR.
Oh my god, I've never heard of Chu Chem. The wikipedia page is GOLD!
There was a song called "Re-Orient Yourself"
" At one point on opening night, her successor Henrietta Jacobson turned to the audience and announced, "There was a song here, but you'll be better off without it." The reviews were brutal, with one critic describing it "like blintzes and soy sauce" and suggesting "a better title might be The King and Oy." Co-producers Leigh and Cheryl Crawford immediately cancelled the scheduled Broadway opening at the George Abbott Theatre." LOL!
These look as if they are tapes an audience member made and dubbed onto CD. Don't pay top dollar for these items as the sound is usually horrible (Sound board tapes are better but still leave a lot to be desired.) Sometimes this is the only way to hear (sort of) a rare flop score.
Can you tell me what Spotify is or does? I tried to join but got a pop-up telling me it's not available in my area. Is it file sharing/swapping like Soulseek?
Spotify is not a peer-to-peer illegal filesharing program. It is a fully-licensed music streaming application for web and mobile devices, though it's licensing limits it to a certain number of territories. Wikipedia currently lists the service as being available in: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
"At one point on opening night, her successor Henrietta Jacobson turned to the audience and announced, 'There was a song here, but you'll be better off without it.'"
That's what I wanted to hear a few times during Lestat.
I would probably kill to find a copy of BARBARY COAST, but I doubt *anyone* has that.
As for comments back to the audience, my fav is when they were trying out SHINE IT ON in SF, which ultimately became THE ACT when it came to NY. It was interminable, easily three hours long, and a piece of garbage. We're finally getting close: they've done the last number of the "act", and of course the audience is applauding. Liza comes down the edge of the stage and, very Garland, sits with feet dangling over the pit and says, "You've been such a great audience. Know what I'd like to do?" — at which point a guy in the balcony yells, "I DONT KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'D LIKE TO GO HOME!"
The place of course fell apart laughing. She smiled up at him and said, "Just one more song, honey, then we're all outa here."
I dont remember the name of the theatre, sorry. It was on Market Street (this was in San Francisco, remember), at the other end of the park from City Hall. All the big tours went there and a lot of out of town tryouts, like the infamous BARBARY.
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Posted: 2/26/13 at 08:21pm