Beautiful Disasters: Broadway’s Most Legendary Flops

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The episode discusses the top 10 musical flops in Broadway history and analyzes what went wrong with these productions.

Send us Fan Mail They had the budgets, the stars, and the hype—so what went wrong? This week on Musical Lyrical Lingo, we’re trading in the Tony Awards for the "Trouble Out of Town" as we count down the Top 10 Musical Flops in Broadway history. From the expensive web-slinging chaos of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark to the blood-soaked (and short-lived) prom night of Carrie, we’re performing a post-mortem on the shows that crashed, burned, and became immortal legends in the process. In this epi...

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Hosts: Tim, Lj

Topics covered

• Broadway flops
• musical theater
• theater history
• failed productions
• entertainment analysis

Keywords

• Broadway
• musical flops
• theater
• Spider-Man
• Carrie
• Tony Awards
• performing arts

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Books & works: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Carrie

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