These are the musicals that didn't work, for one reason or another, but had a lot going for them. Some had a tremendous amount going for them. Often they had a great score, but a weak book, or the production team was great on paper, but the professional synergy just didn't emerge. These shows certainly don't belong on the "suck" list, and some of them have even made their way onto my "best" or "next-best" list. While ultimately unsuccessful, at least financially, these musicals are all worthy of attention, if only through extant (but sometimes out-of-print) cast recordings.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Allegro
Amour
Anyone Can Whistle
Big Deal
Candide
Carmelina
Celebration
Chess
Dear World
Flahooley
Flora the Red Menace
Follies
Greenwillow
Happiness
High Fidelity
How Now Dow Jones
Is There Life After High School?
Juno
Kwamina
Mack and Mabel
Merrily We Roll Along
Minnie's Boys
My Favorite Year
Passion
Prettybelle
Pipe Dream
Rags
Reefer Madness
The Rink
Seussical
Sherry!
Smile
Tenderloin
The Baker's Wife
The Glorious Ones
The Grand Tour
The Grass Harp
The Human Comedy
The Life
Triumph of Love
Whoop-Up
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