Besides Carrie, Which Nutty Musical Flop Would You Kill to Jump Back in Time to See?

More people like to boast that they saw that crazy flop musical Carrie than is humanly possible, considering that it only ran for 16 preview and five regular performances at the Virginia Theatre. Now that the DOA tuner is gearing up for a Gotham return, we’ve been thinking about all the other fabled crazy musicals that we’d kill to travel back in time to see. And you? Which of these big-time legendary Broadway musical flops would you like to experience for yourself?

Learn about your time-traveling choices, and then vote below!

A Broadway Musical (1978) - A musical about a musical! Songwriters Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote it about their experiences working with Sammy Davis Jr. on Golden Boy, with The Wiz writer William F. Brown providing a script that spoofed the industry. It closed on opening night.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1966) – Musical take on the novella and movie with a book by Edward Albee (!), score by Bob Merrill and starring Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain in the lead roles. Producer David Merrick called it “excruciatingly boring” when he closed it in previews.

Dude: The Highway Life (1972) - From Hair dudes Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot came this story of two actors tempted by devil (named Zero) to give birth to a hippie son, Dude. The gutted Broadway Theatre created a theater-in-the-round atmosphere with dirt, ramps, catwalks and trapezes.

Got Tu Go Disco (1979) - Broadway’s “first disco musical,” this one boasted two directors, three writers, three choreographers, 11 composers, a cast of 36 and a dance floor that filled with 3,000 gallons of water. So many creative types yet no one revised the title.

Legs Diamond (1988) - Flamboyant Peter Allen wrote the score (Harvey Fierstein penned the book) and played a tough guy gangster in 1930s New York with a bit of a showbiz bug. The flashy musical previewed for nine weeks before opening to bad reviews, closing 64 performances later.

Marilyn: An American Fable (1983) -  The Hollywood icon sang on Broadway in this bio-musical. During previews, 10 songs were dropped, the star was replaced and original director/choreographer Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) was pushed out. Despite a tacked-on happy ending, it bombed.

Nick & Nora (1991) - Sure, Lorraine (played by Faith Prince) was knocked off nightly in this musical murder mystery based on The Thin Man movies, but the real blood was backstage! A star was fired, songs were changed nightly and tensions were high. Finally it opened... and closed.

Rachel Lily Rosenbloom (And Don’t You Ever Forget It) (1973) - Bette Midler passed on starring in this showbiz satire by disco songwriter Paul Jabara and Tom Eyen (Dreamgirls). Instead, Ellen Greene took on the campy role of a Brooklyn girl in Hollywood, until it closed in previews.

Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure (1986) - The lovable rag doll came to live for five performances at the Nederlander Theatre, in this kiddie musical that featured dancing bats, a big blue camel and a pet canary named Yellow Yum Yum.

Smile (1986) - Marvin Hamlisch collaborated with Howard Ashman for this campy musical comedy, based on an offbeat 1975 film with the same name set at the California Young American Miss beauty pageant. It closed after just 48 performances.

Via Galactica (1972) – Another rock flop from Galt MacDermot, this one involving a spacey futuristic story set on an asteroid in the year 2972. Raul Julia and Irene Cara were featured in the show, which closed after seven performances.