"first LP appearance here. ""Ring of Fire"" was the first #1 album when Billboard debuted their Country Album Chart on January 11, 1964. It was certified Gold on February 11, 1965 by the RIAA, earning him his first Gold LP. It stands as the only Columbia ""greatest hits"" collection to be included in the """" box set. Album - Billboard (North America) Singles - Billboard (North America) Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash is the sixteenth album in total by the singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1963"
"scathing reviews, and despite the fact that the theatre was sold out every night, the financial backers pulled their money out of the show, and it closed on May 15 after only 16 previews and 5 performances, guaranteeing its place in theatre history as one of the most expensive disasters of all time. According to ""The New York Times"", the ""more-than-$7 million show...was the most expensive quick flop in Broadway history."" A reading was held on November 20, 2009, in New York City. The score and book were revised by original composers Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, and writer Lawrence"
"to the physical demands of the role, Carney performs in six of the eight performances each week. The original alternate was British actor Matthew James Thomas, who left the show in November 2012 to star in ""Pippin"". On November 19, 2013, producers announced that the show would close on January 4, 2014, citing falling ticket sales and no longer being able to get injury insurance for the production as reasons for closure. Having run on Broadway for over three years, the production failed to make back its $75 million cost, the largest in Broadway history, with investors reportedly losing $60"
"The musical, retitled ""Juno"", was a commercial failure, closing after only 16 Broadway performances. It was also panned by some critics as being too ""dark"" to be an appropriate musical, a genre then almost invariably associated with light comedy. However, the music, which survives in a cast album made before the show opened, has since been regarded as some of Blitzstein's best work. Although endorsed by the then 79-year-old O'Casey, he did not contribute to the production or even see it during its brief run. Despite general agreement on the brilliance of the underlying material, the musical has defied all"
"the show received consistently bad reviews, and when it reached Los Angeles, Segal asked that his name be removed from the credits. Marre, whose career had unsuccessful shows like ""Cry for Us All"" and ""Shangri-La"", not only revamped the book and lyrics, but fired choreographer Billy Wilson and took over the musical staging as well. In August, an unhappy Brynner sued to terminate his contract but backed down when he was threatened with a $1 million countersuit. By November, the producers decided to close the show at the end of the tour and forgo a Broadway opening. Brynner threatened to"
"A Broadway Musical A Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by William F. Brown, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production closed after 14 previews and only one performance on December 21, 1978. The plot about a sleazy white theatre producer's attempt to adapt an African-American writer's serious play as a commercial stage musical was inspired by Adams and Strouse's real-life experiences with their 1964 Broadway production of ""Golden Boy"". The star of the musical-within-the-musical (""Sneakers"", about a basketball star) closely resembles ""Golden Boy"" star Sammy Davis, Jr. When the star opts to"
"fatally underpowered evening. The Charles Strouse-Lee Adams score had its moments."" Mandelbaum noted that ""the characters were all clichés. ... A shallow treatment of a theme with potential ... was capped with an absurd ending"". A Broadway Musical A Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by William F. Brown, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production closed after 14 previews and only one performance on December 21, 1978. The plot about a sleazy white theatre producer's attempt to adapt an African-American writer's serious play as a commercial stage musical was inspired by Adams"
"transformed into a black man. Ernest Harburg, Yip Harburg's son and president of the Harburg Foundation, said ""The satire of our economic system is particularly relevant right now [2009], given the nation’s deep financial woes."" The producers closed the show on January 17, 2010, stating that the ""economic realities of Broadway today"" did not allow them to play for as long as they had hoped. The production sold approximately two-thirds of its seats for the 15-week run. Garth Drabinsky offered to try to rescue the revival and secure Canadian tour commitments, but the producers rejected his proposal. The show was"
"reception, as well as low ticket sales, the musical closed on April 30, 2006 after 57 performances and 38 previews. The musical was produced at the Charlottetown Festival, Prince Edward Island, in June 2012. A ""reconceived"" version of the musical was presented at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in March 2013, created and directed by Maltby. This version had five cast members, including Eddie Clendening. Ben Brantley, in his review for the ""New York Times"", wrote: ""Though Mr. Cash...is not himself a character in this latest entry in the jukebox musical sweepstakes of Broadway, his spirit is invoked as"
"but at the time New York had essentially no Chinese people living there who would properly appreciate the performance. After a lukewarm reception (one critic compared the traditional Cantonese music to ""the sound of distressed cats"" fused with ""ungreased cart wheels"", and opined that perhaps the singers were in communion with Satan), the show closed after only one week open, leaving the troupe unable to even pay its hotel bill and having had to pawn their costumes for money. According to Su Zheng's research, some were able to find employ in a workhouse on Roosevelt Island, one attempted suicide, and"
"The musical closed on June 12, 2011 after having played 489 performances and 34 previews. The production opened Off-Broadway at the New World Stages in July 2011. ""Million Dollar Quartet: The Musical"" opened in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre on February 28, 2011, with previews from February 8. The original cast featured Bill Ward as Sam Phillips, Ben Goddard as Jerry Lee Lewis, Derek Hagen as Johnny Cash, Francesca Jackson as Dyanne, Robert Britton Lyons as Carl Perkins (However, from March 2011, he was replaced by Oliver Seymour-Marsh who was originally the first understudy for the same"
"performances sold out within 24 hours. ""Lorelei"" then toured the country for nearly a year and earned a tidy profit. According to Steven Suskin, writing in ""Playbill"", ""Channing did great business in some places, and only so-so in others; the star pleased audiences, by and large, but the show didn't. If the show had impressive grosses along the way, it also had outsized costs as they added songs and threw out songs along the way."" The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on January 27, 1974, following 11 previews and closed on November 3, 1974 after 321 performances."
"the public had tired of the flood of movie musicals that began as a slow trickle with ""The Jazz Singer"" in late 1927 and rapidly became a torrent after the success of ""The Broadway Melody"" in early 1929. In particular disfavor were operettas set in bygone eras, musical comedies which were unimaginatively filmed Broadway stage productions, and plotless ""revues"" such as ""King of Jazz"". Second, although the ripple effects from the stock market crash in October 1929 had not yet produced the full-blown depression which would soon be painfully obvious, people were already spending less freely and the effects were"
"investor, put in another $100,000 to keep it going and everyone agreed to royalty cuts until the production's cost—about $1.1 million—was recouped...By the eighth week, we were selling out."" The Broadway production moved to The Broadway Theatre on May 25, 1977, and closed on January 28, 1979, after four years and 1,672 performances. Along with other musicals including ""Purlie"" (1971) and ""Raisin"" (1974), ""The Wiz"" was a breakthrough for Broadway, a large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-black cast. It laid the foundation for later African-American hits such as ""Bubbling Brown Sugar"", ""Dreamgirls"" and ""Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies"". The musical toured"
"was canceled, supposedly by the director, Robert Montgomery. Courtney said of the incident, ""I heard lots or rumors about what happened, mainly that Robert Montgomery didn't like this kind of filthy, disgusting stuff--that's why we didn't get to open at Lincoln Center."" Black got the musical moved to the Jan Hus Playhouse for its off-Broadway run, starting on September 24, 1969 and ending on April 19, 1970, after 239 performances. It earned a profit of $55,000. Black convinced Link and Courtney to close the New York production for the summer, bring it to Los Angeles, and try to reopen it"
"original Broadway production: The musical ran on Broadway for over 1,500 performances and despite the long run, the musical lacked stellar reviews and lost money - more than $1.5 million - upon closure. Jekyll & Hyde (musical) Jekyll & Hyde is a musical horror-drama loosely based on the novella ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally conceived for the stage by Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden, it features music by Wildhorn, a book by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by Wildhorn, Bricusse and Cuden. After a world premiere run in Houston, Texas, the musical embarked"
"on Broadway on April 11, 2010. Actor Lance Guest portrayed Cash. The musical was nominated for three awards at the 2010 Tony Awards and won one. Robert Hilburn, veteran ""Los Angeles Times"" pop music critic, the journalist who accompanied Cash in his 1968 Folsom prison tour, and interviewed Cash many times throughout his life including months before his death, published a 688-page biography with 16 pages of photographs in 2013. The meticulously reported biography is said to have filled in the 80% of Cash's life that was unknown, including details about Cash's battles with addiction and infidelity. The book reportedly"
"- to Broadway, where it is due to open in November. "" However, the ""Los Angeles Times"" reported that ""The cancellation came despite advance ticket sales for the Los Angeles production 'way in excess of $4 million,' said Peter Brown, a spokesman for Lloyd Webber."" Dunaway filed a lawsuit claiming her reputation had been damaged by the producer's claims. Dunaway's lawsuit was settled and the producers paid her a settlement but no other terms of the agreement have ever been disclosed. The musical opened on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre on 17 November 1994 with Close, Campbell, and Hearn recreating"
"due to weak ticket sales for ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" the show closed November 1, 2009 and the planned production of ""Broadway Bound"" was canceled. The musical ""Million Dollar Quartet"" made its Broadway debut at the theatre April 11, 2010 and played through June 12, 2011. Following MDQ, ""Newsies"" opened for a limited engagement, which was subsequently converted to an open run. ""Newsies"" closed August 24, 2014, and began touring in October. A musical, ""Honeymoon in Vegas"" began previews November 18, 2014, with its official opening on January 15, 2015. ""Amazing Grace,"" played from the summer through the fall of 2015."
"the rest of his life, originated in his nervousness on the opening night of ""Blue Monday"". A few days after, it opened (and closed) on Broadway at the Globe Theatre on August 28, 1922. The opera itself did not gain a lot of acceptance because of its tragic ending, and was removed from the Scandals after only one performance. Some critics saw the work as worse than just inappropriate for the Scandals, as Charles Darnton's review in the ""New York World"" called it ""the most dismal, stupid, and incredible blackface sketch that has probably ever been perpetrated. In it a"
"on October 25, 1940 and closed on March 8, 1941 after 156 performances. The musical is based on the story ""Little Joe"" by Lynn Root. Musicals Tonight! presented a staged concert of the musical at the 14th Street YMHA, New York City in October 2003. The musical was presented in a staged concert by Encores! in February 2016, starring Chuck Cooper, Norm Lewis, and LaChanze. Source: Internet Broadway Database ACT 1: ACT 2: The original Broadway characters and cast: The musical was very well received. Gerald Bordman wrote ""Wisely, everyone involved in the show rejected the easy excesses and crassness"
"Prince of Central Park (musical) Prince of Central Park is a 1989 Broadway musical with music by Don Sebesky, lyrics by Gloria Nissenson and a book by Evan H. Rhodes. It is based on Rhodes' 1974 novel ""The Prince of Central Park"" and its 1977 television movie adaptation which starred Ruth Gordon and Brooke Shields. The musical was a notorious flop, losing nearly $2 million and closing after only four performances. Today, it is best remembered for a humorously negative review by Frank Rich in ""The New York Times"". The musical tells the story of Jay-Jay, a 12-year-old runaway who"
"Washington critics. On April 30, 2006, after only a 10 preview period, the musical finally opened on Broadway. It received harsh reviews, with the ""talkinbroadway"" reviewer calling the show a ""nuclear meltdown of a jukebox musical"". The ""USA Today"" reviewer wrote that the show ""isn't a disaster"" but that she was disappointed"". Due to poor ticket sales, the musical closed on July 23, 2006 after 12 previews and 97 regular performances. A cast recording was never produced. † Indicates new songs and are sung onstage. All other songs are sung offstage by live background band vocalists. Hot Feet Hot Feet"
"1996. The musical opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on April 28, 1996, and closed on October 13, 1996, after 193 performances. Although it was nominated for five Tony Awards (Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Book, Score, and Choreography), it was one of Broadway's costliest money-losers. The show had a US National tour, directed by Eric D. Schaeffer starring Jim Newman and Jacquelyn Piro Donovan, which began in September 1997 in Wilmington, DE. It was ""restaged and largely rewritten for the road"". Reviews were sharply divided on the musical, but not on the 1998 US National tour, which was a"
"the black-themed musical itself. ""The Wiz"" proved to be Brown's only success. Following a dismal October–November tryout with Helen Gallagher and Julius LaRosa at the theatre in the Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, the producers fired most of the cast and creative personnel, including director/choreographer George Faison. Gower Champion was called in to rescue the Broadway-bound production with only a month to go, but he feared that the show's defects were too serious to remedy and insisted on receiving a ""Production supervised by"" credit only. After 14 previews, the Broadway production opened and closed the same night at the Lunt-Fontanne"
"toured the US in the musical. Her next two Broadway ventures flopped. ""The Moony Shapiro Songbook"" (1981), a campy spoof of songwriter-based revues like ""Side by Side by Sondheim"" and ""Ain't Misbehavin'"", closed after fifteen previews and one official performance. Frank Rich, in his ""New York Times"" review, wrote ""Two members of the company suggest what might have been - Judy Kaye, a skilled musical-comedy comedienne who sings a pretty ballad at a white piano."" In November 1981 ""Oh, Brother!"", which transplanted William Shakespeare's ""The Comedy of Errors"" to the Middle East, closed after thirteen previews and three official performances."
"of cinematic fluidity. The first preview on 11 April 1988 ran 4 hours with a 90-minute intermission (the stage crew reportedly had problems with the sets); by opening night on 28 April, it was down to 3 hours 15 minutes. But despite a healthy box-office advance, the Broadway production did not manage to sustain a consistently large audience and closed on 25 June, after 17 previews and 68 regular performances. ""And there I was, on closing night, singing and sobbing along,"" later wrote ""Time"" magazine critic Richard Corliss. Overall, the show (capitalized at $6 million) since its opening, according to"
"Billy's passport problems and declares Moon ""harmless."" Moon indignantly pockets Oakleigh's check and refuses to return it. The musical had a tryout in Colonial Theatre (Boston), before opening on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 21, 1934. It ran for 420 performances, becoming the fourth longest-running musical of the 1930s, despite the impact of the Great Depression on Broadway patrons' disposable income. Directed by Howard Lindsay with choreography by Robert Alton and sets by Donald Oenslager, it starred Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, William Gaxton as Billy Crocker and Victor Moore as Moonface Martin. Charles B. Cochran, a British"
"to replace a significant number of songs throughout rehearsals. The original director, Charnin, was replaced by Cy Feuer after tryouts in Philadelphia, with producer Alexander H. Cohen saying ""they had to go 'for radical surgery' "". The original choreographer, Graciela Daniele, was replaced by Danny Daniels. The musical, produced by Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks opened on Broadway on May 31, 1979 at the Majestic Theatre, where it closed on September 2 after 108 performances and 40 previews. Directed by Cy Feuer, the opening cast featured Liv Ullmann, George Hearn, Dolores Wilson, and George S. Irving. The spectacular and"
"Rich puts the final figure near or above US$20 million lost, making the show what he termed a ""flop-hit,"" as it ran more than two years. The musical sold over a million tickets on Broadway. The first national US tour in 1996 starring Linda Balgord ended in early 1997 after only a handful of venues due to exorbitant costs involved in transporting the set. Lloyd Webber called in director Susan H. Schulman to design a scaled-down production, with Petula Clark once again in the lead opposite Lewis Cleale as Joe. This production featured Anthony Powell's Tony Award nominated costumes, a"
"in November 1933. He returned to ""The Fire Chief"" which continued until being cancelled in early 1935. On November 22, 1935, Billy Rose's musical ""Jumbo"" premiered at The Hippodrome in New York City. The musical told the story about a financially strapped circus. The musical also starred Durante, Novis and Grafton. At the end of each performance, Durante would lay down on the stage and permit a live elephant to place its foot upon his head. The musical closed on April 18, 1936, after 233 performances. The Texas Company, aka Texaco, decided to continue their sponsored ""Fire Chief"" with ""The"
"as the Philadelphia version; however, the actors' commentary is entirely removed. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a 1976 musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. It is considered to be a legendary Broadway flop, running only seven performances. It was Bernstein's last original score for Broadway. The musical opened on May 4, 1976, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre and closed on May 8, 1976, after 7 performances and 13 previews. It was co-directed and co-choreographed by Gilbert Moses and George Faison. The musical examined the establishment of the White House"
"for dancing alone and I should never have tried it."" Though successful with critics, the revue failed to attract an audience; at least not enough of one to pay for the lavish production. Castle, White and others were let go by the producers, but the show still foundered in its out-of-the-way theatre. It closed on 5 January 1918, after only six weeks of performances. A month after ""Miss 1917"" closed on Broadway, on 21 February 1918, items used in the show were sold in an auction, raising $11,300, according to ""The New York Times"". Most of the items for auction"