“Carrie” That Tune: Hit Songs From Flop Musicals

“Carrie” That Tune: Hit Songs From Flop Musicals is a revue of songs, many of them classics from the Great American Songbook. These songs came not from hit musicals or Tin Pan Alley songwriters. Each song was a bright spot in a Broadway musical that flopped.

For every blockbuster like The Book of Mormon or The Phantom of the Opera, there’s a notorious counterpart, such as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark or that flop by which all others are measured, Carrie. But many of these also-ran shows contained extraordinary songs, lots of which became hits in their own right. “Carrie” That Tune is a tribute to those songs. Starting with a re-creation of the notorious publicity stunt pulled by producer David Merrick on the opening eve of his flop Subways Are for Sleeping, this one-of-a-kind musical revue revives some of Broadway’s greatest songs that got away, such as “Who Can I Turn To?”, “What Did I Have?”, and “One Night in Bangkok.”