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| re: One of the great head-scratchers of all time. | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:18 pm EST 01/18/22 | |
| In reply to: One of the great head-scratchers of all time. - ShowGoer 08:02 am EST 01/18/22 | |
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| I don’t think there’s a chance in hell this is going to be the next Anyone Can Whistle, Love Life, Merrily We Roll Along, or Chess, that people are lamenting what went wrong and still trying to make work 30 or 40 years from now. But surely that's exactly what Flying Over Sunset already is. None of those shows you named is any lost masterpiece. They're all examples of shows that don't work, and are very probably never going to work--certainly not in the commercial-Broadway sense--but that a lot of people happen to like anyway. Like Flying Over Sunset. |
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| re: One of the great head-scratchers of all time. | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 07:00 pm EST 01/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: One of the great head-scratchers of all time. - keikekaze 04:18 pm EST 01/18/22 | |
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| I can’t believe you just compared Flying Over Sunset to those shows. But either way, Flying Over Sunset literally isn’t a similar example of “surely that's exactly what Flying Over Sunset already is.” Because it hasn’t been around 30 or 40 years like the shows I cited, long enough for anyone to lament what went wrong and mount multiple new productions to try and fix it. So it’s exactly not that. Not at all. I still don’t think that scenario is going to happen, by the way. But I could be wrong. Come find me in 2050 or 2060 and by all means gloat if you called this one correctly. | |
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| re: One of the great head-scratchers of all time. | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 10:11 pm EST 01/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: One of the great head-scratchers of all time. - ShowGoer 07:00 pm EST 01/18/22 | |
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| I stand by my initial comment. Since I didn't make any predictions, we don't need 30 or 40 years to perceive what is already evident, that all five of the shows previously named (including Flying) are problematic shows that are probably never going to be made to work commercially, but each of which has aspects that appeal to many people. There are, of course, dozens, if not hundreds, of other Broadway musicals that fall into the same category. | |
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