16 Broadway shows closed before the opening

We all know that the Broadway shows last years and years, such as The Phantom of the opera or ChicagoBut sometimes Broadway shows are more short-lived, they don’t even come to the opening night. As any theatrical super-fan can tell you, some of Broadway’s shortest runs remain the favorite programs of fans, and getting a legendary production during a short run can lead to great bragging rights in theater circles.

By browsing the gallery of 16 Broadway shows that were closed before they opened, and read more about nine of them below.

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16 Broadway shows closed before the opening night

1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Beginning Previews on December 12, 1966
December 14 closed, after four previews
Breakfast at Tiffany’s did a lot for it, with a score of Bob Merrill (Funny girl, Carnival!), book and direction by Abe Burrows (Guys and dolls, How to Pass …), Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain starring, and a popular Truman Capote -Novelle for his source material – who received a very successful film adjustment with Audrey Hepburn just five years before. In fact, it was the most expected production of his season and had the highest progress. Nevertheless, the show was plagued with many issues and rewrites-and did the two thinnings outside the city, and when the show arrived in New York (with a new book by Edward Albee), producer David Merrick decided that despite the healthy progress the show was in no form to open. The show did receive a live cast album with the original Broadway roll division, and in 1995 a studio recording of the score was produced with Faith Prince, Hal Linden, Jonathan Freeman, Ron Raines, Patrick Cassidy and the original co-star Sally Kellerman.

2. The Freaking from Stephanie Blake
Beginning Previews on October 30, 1967
November 1 closed, after three preliminary
The Freaking from Stephanie Blake Should be a screen actor and comedian Jean Arthur’s triumphant return to Broadway, her first main stem appearance in almost 20 years. Arthur played a Spinster from Ohio who visited her niece in New York before traveling to Europe. She finds that her niece is part of a group of hippies, and the generation-derived humor arises. The production was plagued from the beginning with problems; During rehearsals, director John Hancock stopped an argument with the program’s producer. The beginning of the previews had to be postponed – it was originally scheduled to start on October 10. Arthur then collapsed during a performance, which gave producer Cheryl Crawford the perfect excuse to call the whole thing. By the way, the show’s ensemble contains a then 20-year-old Andrea Martin.

3. Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and do you never forget it
Started Previews on November 26, 1973
December 1 closed, after seven preliminary
Written by Paul Jabara, Tom Eyen, with music by Jabara and lyrics by Jabara, Paul Issa, and David Debin, Rachael Lily Rosenbloom was actually meant for Bette Midler. When Midler decreased, Ellen Greene (later to become known for Little Shop or horrors) Beached to play the title role, an aspiring diva whose extra ‘A’ in her first name is the one missing in her idol, Barbra Streisand. Perhaps too camping for Broadway, it quickly became clear that the show would not have a long life there, and it has not been seen since then, although Feinstein/54 below produces a concert version on March 13, 2017.

4. Truck loading
Started Previews on September 6, 1975
September 11 closed, after six previews
Fresh from the mega hit FatChoreographer Patricia Birch and Dance Arranger Louis St. Louis returned to Broadway in 1975 Truck. St. Louis took the score with lyricist West Harris and Birch the reins as director and choreographer. The show told the story of a group of travelers crossing cross country in a musical bus. Louis played piano as the bus driver on stage. The plan was to forgive an excerpt outside the city and open cold on Broadway, but after six previews it appeared that a Broadway opening was not in the maps.

5. One night stand
Started Previews on October 20, 1980
October 25 closed, after eight preliminary
One night stand A score with music from Jule Styns, and given that his catalog contains such classic people Gypsy, Funny girl, Lord prefers blondesand Bells ringThe topic for this particular show must have been surprising to Broadway audiences: The show finds that his audience was invited to a concert, presented by a popular stage and screen composer (played by Murphy brown and Sunday in the park with George star Charles Kimbrough), with the final of the said concert that will be his suicide. Although the show was closed in previews and has not been seen since then, it has received a cast with the Broadway role distribution.

6. The little prince and the aviation
Beginning Previews on December 26, 1981
January 17, 1982 closed, after 16 preliminary
Count Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic 1943 The little prince is one of the most beloved children’s books ever written; So many stages and screen adjustments have been tried over the years, it should not be a big surprise. This particular attempt contains a book by Hugh Wheeler (Sweeney Todd, A small night music), Music by John Barry (Lolita my love), and lyrics by Don Black (Song and dance, Aspects of love, Sunset Boulevard). The cast includes Michael York, Ellen Greene (who may make her the only actor with the dubious distinction to create two Leading roles in Broadway Music Courses that closed before the opening), and a young Anthony Rapp as the Little Prince.

7. Senator Joe
Started Previews on 6 January 1989
January 8 closed, after three previews
A rock opera that tells the story of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Senator Joe is perhaps just as notorious as the man who inspired it. Apparently, financing was so shaky that the theater’s market still read Kenny Loggins on Broadway-A Hold-over from the last tenant of the theater-for all three of the show. One of his producers, Adela Holzer, served a prison sentence for her fundraising tactics, which led to several investors cheating millions. Rumors are that this real -life story has become the inspiration behind Terrence McNally’s This is just a play.

8. Face value
Started Previews on March 9 1993
March 14 closed, after eight preliminary
David Henry Hwang’s first Broadway play, M. Butterflywas quite a success when it opened on Broadway in 1988 and won the Tony Award for the Best Play in 1989. Hwang reunited with reunification Butterfly‘s star, BD Wong, for Face value In 1993, with Jane Krakowski and Mark Linn-Baker, also under the cast. Loosely based on the controversy around the cast of Miss Saigon on Broadway in 1991, Face value was meant to be a farce about multi-racial cast, but critics in Boston don’t find it very humorous. It ended up only eight performances on Broadway. The experience has become the inspiration behind Hwang Yellow facewho was promoted in Los Angeles in 2007 before playing off-Broadway in the public theater, where it won the OBIE Award for Drama Writer.

9. Bobbi Boland
Started Previews on November 4, 2003
November 9 closed, after seven ahead
The most recent Broadway show to join previews was a good success in Broadway a few years before, which was presented from March to July 2001 in the Arclight Theater in New York. The play Tuk focuses on the title character, a former beauty queen who runs a charm school in Florida. Farrah Fawcett would make her Broadway debut in the part, but after a week of previews, producer Joyce Johnson announced that the show was not working on Broadway, and that she closed the show before the opening night. At the time, there was a hope that a revised version would play with Fawcett again next spring, but it never materialized.