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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Is a Musical Misfire?
Chapter One: When Everything Misfires
Nick & Nora (1991)
Chapter Two: When to Avoid the Celluloid
My Favorite Year (1992)
The Goodbye Girl (1993)
The Red Shoes (1993)
Sweet Smell of Success (2002)
Ghost the Musical (2012)
Bullets Over Broadway (2014)
Amélie (2017)
Tootsie (2019)
Chapter Three: Plopped on the Stage
Meet Me in St. Louis (1989)
State Fair (1996)
High Society (1998)
Saturday Night Fever (1999)
Xanadu (2007)
Chapter Four: The “Name” of the Game
Big (1996)
Urban Cowboy (2003)
The Wedding Singer (2006)
High Fidelity (2006)
9 to 5 (2009)
Sister Act (2011)
Pretty Woman: The Musical (2018)
Chapter Five: A Different Time, A Different Place
Steel Pier (1997)
Never Gonna Dance (2003)
A Catered Affair (2008)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012)
It Shoulda Been You (2015)
Bandstand (2017)
Chapter Six: The Changing of the Guard
Aspects of Love (1990)
Ain’t Broadway Grand (1993)
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (1994)
By Jeeves (2001)
The Frogs (2004)
Curtains (2007)
Leap of Faith (2012)
The Visit (2015)
Chapter Seven: A Matter of Size
Triumph of Love (1997)
Amour (2002)
Brooklyn (2004)
Glory Days (2008)
The Story of My Life (2009)
Hands on a Hardbody (2013)
First Date (2013)
Gettin’ the Band Back Together (2018)
Chapter Eight: Size Matters
Starmites (1989)
Caroline, or Change (2004)
Grey Gardens (2006)
Passing Strange (2008)
[title of show] (2008)
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2010)
Photo Gallery One
Chapter Nine: Family Friendly Broadway
Seussical (2000)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001)
A Year With Frog and Toad (2003)
Tarzan (2006)
Shrek the Musical (2008)
Tuck Everlasting (2016)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (2019)
Chapter Ten: Teen Angst
Footloose (1998)
Cry-Baby (2008)
13 (2008)
The Prom (2018)
Be More Chill (2019)
Chapter Eleven: Pale Imitations
Truly Blessed (1990)
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (1990)
Marlene (1999)
Lennon (2005)
Baby, It’s You! (2011)
End of the Rainbow (2012)
Chaplin, the Musical (2012)
A Night with Janis Joplin (2013)
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018)
The Cher Show (2018)
Chapter Twelve: Who Are You Again?
Side Show (1997)
Kat and the Kings (1999)
A Class Act (2001)
Taboo (2003)
LoveMusik (2007)
Scandalous (2012)
Soul Doctor (2013)
War Paint (2017)
Chapter Thirteen: “Classic” Mistakes
Anna Karenina (1992)
Cyrano: The Musical (1993)
Jane Eyre (2000)
Little Women (2005)
A Tale of Two Cities (2008)
Wonderland (2011)
Doctor Zhivago (2015)
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (2016)
Chapter Fourteen: What a Horror!
Dance of the Vampires (2002)
Dracula (2004)
The Woman in White (2005)
Lestat (2006)
American Psycho (2016)
Chapter Fifteen: History Lessons
Band in Berlin (1999)
The Civil War (1999)
The Pirate Queen (2007)
The Scottsboro Boys (2010)
Bonnie & Clyde (2011)
Allegiance (2015)
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016)
Chapter Sixteen: Too Unique For Broadway
Dangerous Games (1989)
Prince of Central Park (1989)
A Change in the Heir (1990)
Metro (1992)
James Joyce’s The Dead (2000)
Head Over Heels (2018)
Photo Gallery Two
Chapter Seventeen: Killing the Momentum
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010)
Catch Me If You Can (2011)
Lysistrata Jones (2011)
Honeymoon in Vegas (2015)
Disaster! (2016)
Groundhog Day (2017)
Chapter Eighteen: Is There An Audience for This?
Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass (1996)
The Capeman (1998)
Marie Christine (1999)
The Wild Party (2000)
Thou Shalt Not (2001)
In My Life (2005)
Amazing Grace (2015)
Chapter Nineteen: Too Outside the Broadway Box
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1995)
If/Then (2014)
The Last Ship (2014)
Bright Star (2016)
In Transit (2016)
Chapter Twenty: No Nickel for The Jukebox
Play On! (1997)
Good Vibrations (2005)
Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical Show (2006)
Hot Feet (2006)
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (2006)
Come Fly Away (2010)
Priscilla Queen of the Desert (2011)
Holler If Ya Hear Me (2014)
Escape to Margaritaville (2018)
Chapter Twenty-One: Costly Conclusions
Shōgun: The Musical (1990)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997)
Bombay Dreams (2004)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2005)
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2011)
Rocky (2014)
King Kong (2018)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Disguised as Success
Passion (1994)
Sunset Boulevard (1994)
Victor/Victoria (1995)
Young Frankenstein (2007)
American Idiot (2010)
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (2017)
Chapter Twenty-Three: It’s Not Where You Start …
Parade (1998)
All Shook Up (2005)
Big Fish (2013)
The Bridges of Madison County (2014)
Finding Neverland (2015)
Chapter Twenty-Four: When Everything Goes Dark
List of Musicals
Bibliography
About the Authors
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