| I'm more familiar with London hits that flopped in New York than the other way around. Two musicals that each ran more than 2,000 performances in the West End in the 1960s, Canterbury Tales and Charlie Girl, played 121 and zero performances in New York, respectively. (That is, Charlie Girl was never even tried there.) There's also a whole genre of smash-hit British farces, non-musical, that seldom work in New York even if they get produced there at all. No Sex, Please--We're British and Run For Your Wife each ran for hundreds if not thousands of performances in London, and 16 and 32 performances, respectively, in New York. |
