Broadway (and the West End) is strewn with the corpses of bad musicals, some of them (like Rock of Ages or We Will Rock You) still breathing, against all the odds. But sometimes, by the same token, good musicals flop and no one quite knows why: the original Blood Brothers, for instance, mustered a West End run of barely six months in 1983; yet when it came back in 1988, it began a run that is still going strong now, …
SOURCE: The Stage at 03:54AM on February 20, 2012