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| What seems like resisting to make changes | |
| Posted by: dramedy 09:40 am EDT 04/02/23 | |
| In reply to: One of the worst things I have seen on a professional stage - barna99 08:35 am EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Is terrible. The piece needs a lot of work and editing down an hour. I didn’t think the songs were good at all. I thought the same thing—it took him probably 10-20 years to write strange loop based on his life experience. Maybe that is the only show in him. There probably see plenty of other examples of one show wonders. Mary Rodgers did once upon a mattress. Her other broadway show hot spot flopped. She contributed some songs to other shows. |
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| re: What seems like resisting to make changes | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 01:02 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:54 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
| In reply to: What seems like resisting to make changes - dramedy 09:40 am EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Mary Rodgers had a significant, long running second hit with the off-Broadway musical revue The Mad Show. Better examples would be Clark Gesner for his single hit "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" and Rick Besoyan for his hit off-Broadway show Little Mary Sunshine. Besoyan, like Gesner, never had another hit. Sherman Edwards had a single hit with 1776, but died at the age of 61 without writing another show. |
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| re: What seems like resisting to make changes | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:04 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: What seems like resisting to make changes - BroadwayTonyJ 12:54 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Mitch Leigh, Man of La Mancha | |
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| re: What seems like resisting to make changes | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:47 am EDT 04/03/23 | |
| In reply to: re: What seems like resisting to make changes - Singapore/Fling 01:04 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Mitch Leigh may well have had the worst track record in Broadway history after achieving one spectacular success with Man of La Mancha in 1965. From 1970 to 1993 he wrote the scores for 5 Broadway shows, all of which were short lived commercial failures: Cry for Us All, Home Sweet Homer, Sarava, Chu Chem, and Ain't Broadway Grand. 2 more examples: Gerard Calvi, whose one Broadway success was La Plume de Ma Tante, and Marguerite Monnot, who wrote the score for Irma La Douce. Calvi's follow up show La Grosse Valise played only 12 previews and 7 (official) performances. He never returned to Broadway and pretty much provided incidental music for French films for the rest of his career. Monnot was mostly known as a songwriter for Edith Piaf. I believe La Douce was her only musical show -- she passed away in 1961 at age 58. |
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