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Sound of Music comes out this year. Could Hello Dolly be far behind?
Originally Posted by Rick Thompson
Let's get The King and I, Oklahoma! and State Fair first, completing the Rodgers & Hammerstein hits. While personally I liked Hello, Dolly!, it flopped at the box office and doesn't hold a candle to the the R&H shows.
Originally Posted by GMpasqua
It's hard to consider the 5th highest grossing film of a year a flop, much like "Cleopatra" which was the number one film of 1963 and yet it was also considered a flop. The highest grossing film of the year was a flop!
Originally Posted by JohnMor
Hello, Dolly! did indeed flop at the box office in it's initial run. The grosses are irrelevent because any film that does not NOT make back it's cost is in the red, and therefore a flop. It has since moved into the black, but that does not change the fact that it was a failure in it's initial theatrical release, no matter how much money it grossed.
Would LOVE to see it on Blu, and with Star! and the R&H films.
Originally Posted by ahollis
It made 56 million in its initial release on a cost of 25 million for film and another 15 million for promotion for a total +/- of 40 million. It was barely in the black at the end of that run but it was in the black. It was not a flop.
Interesting in that it was initially budgeted at 10 million but quickly went up to the 25 million including 2 million for the New York set alone.
Originally Posted by GMpasqua
Quite a few musical films were hits well after the "The Sound of Music": including: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" "Funny Girl" "Oliver" "Fiddler on the Roof" "Cabaret" "Jesus Christ Superstar" "Tommy" "Grease" "All That Jazz" "Best LIttle Whorehouse in Texas" "Flashdance" "Footloose"