Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak looks at 151 musicals
that
did not run long enough to be considered hits. Such shows were once
called flops but that is no longer an appropriate description. Some of
these were superb pieces of musical theatre that, for one reason or
another, couldn't find an audience, did not please the critics, couldn't
pay the high weekly bills, or just were not right for the time and
place in which they opened. Oft-overlooked gems like The Scottsboro
Boys, Grey Gardens, Sweet Smell of Success, Xanadu, If/Then, Caroline,
or Change, Bright Star, Steel Pier, The Last Ship, and Tuck Everlasting
are explored alongside such famous musicals as American Idiot,
Victor/Victoria, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sister Act, All Shook Up, Be
More Chill, Shrek the Musical, Seussical, and Young Frankenstein that
never reached hit status on Broadway. Juke box musicals, cutting-edge
musicals, movie adaptations, teenage musicals, biographical musicals,
history musicals, and even horror musicals are among the many genres
included in this captivating journey of Broadway shows from 1989 to 2020
in search of success. Illustrated with forty-two photographs (most in
color) and filled with backstage stories, reviews from the press, and
commentary on why the musicals were not hits, Musical Misfires is
indispensable reading for anyone who loves musical theatre, both its
triumphs and it heartbreaks.
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