Explore every episode of the podcast Flop of the Heap
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky - "My Nose Ain't Broken" | 27 Jan 2025 | 01:02:24 | |
Music by Stephen Flaherty | |||
| Into the Light - "Thin Fabric" | 30 Dec 2024 | 01:00:00 | |
Music by Lee Holdridge | |||
| Cry For Us All - "CLUNK!" | 06 Nov 2024 | 01:10:04 | |
with Special Guest Host Connor McAndrews | |||
| The Pirate Queen - "All Plot, No Heart" | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:58:03 | |
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg | |||
| Rags - "Another load of human dirt" | 01 Jul 2024 | 01:06:18 | |
Music by Charles Strouse | |||
| BONUS June Listener Mail Episode!!! | 17 Jun 2024 | 00:21:42 | |
Marla & John read some listener mail and go off on several random tangents in this very special bonus episode!!!! | |||
| Peg - "Look at Me, I'm Peggy Lee!" | 10 Jun 2024 | 00:57:40 | |
John & Marla break down the unmitigated disaster that was the Peggy Lee musical. | |||
| Sail Away - "A Cruise to Nowhere" | 06 May 2024 | 01:10:49 | |
Special Guest Host Connor McAndrews joins John to discuss this titanic Broadway flop! | |||
| Bring Back Birdie - "A Gloomy Middle Age" | 08 Apr 2024 | 01:07:16 | |
John & Marla discuss the short-lived sequel to 'Bye Bye Birdie' in this tribute episode to the late Chita Rivera. | |||
| Flora, The Red Menace - "Milk & Cookies for the Kids!" | 12 Feb 2024 | 01:05:20 | |
Music by John Kander | |||
| Pickwick - "What the Dickens?" | 25 Dec 2023 | 01:06:03 | |
Music by Cyril Orandel | |||
| Bonus Bitching Episode! | 21 Nov 2023 | 01:07:15 | |
John & Marla read listener mail, ask each other flop trivia and generally bitch about the Sweeney Todd revival stunt casting. | |||
| The Woman In White - "Houseguest, Mouse Guest" | 30 Oct 2023 | 01:07:43 | |
Guest host Connor McAndrews joins Marla AND John to discuss Andrew Lloyd Webber's spooky Victorian flop: THE WOMAN IN WHITE. | |||
| Grind - "Bomb in a Butter Churn" | 09 Oct 2023 | 01:10:34 | |
Guest host Connor McAndrews joins John to dissect this '80s flop: GRIND. | |||
| I Had A Ball - Part 2 - "You're A Fraud, Freud" | 18 Sep 2023 | 00:53:15 | |
Connor & John continue their exploration of I Had A Ball. | |||
| I Had A Ball - Part 1 - "Can It Be Possible?" | 11 Sep 2023 | 00:59:07 | |
Music & Lyrics by Jack Lawrence & Stan Freeman | |||
| Listener Mail Special!!! | 28 Aug 2023 | 00:41:20 | |
Marla & John read listener mail in this very special episode of FLOP OF THE HEAP!!! | |||
| Bad Cinderella - Part 2 - "Wacko Storybook Dumpster Fire" | 14 Aug 2023 | 00:51:36 | |
Part 2 of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blind stab at teen pop realness. | |||
| Bad Cinderella - Part 1 - "Bibbidi Bobbidi Basic" | 07 Aug 2023 | 01:04:13 | |
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | |||
| Dear World - Part 2 - "Take the Stitches Out" | 03 Jul 2023 | 00:56:32 | |
Part 2 of Dear World with guest host Connor McAndrews! | |||
| Dear World - Part 1 - "Get Off That Critical List" | 26 Jun 2023 | 01:10:12 | |
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman | |||
| Very Warm For May - "Not So Hot For November" | 16 May 2023 | 00:51:14 | |
Music by Jerome Kern | |||
| Starmites - "The Cruelty, Milady; Milady, the Cruelty" | 24 Apr 2023 | 00:56:04 | |
Music & Lyrics by Barry Keating | |||
| Diana- Episode 2- "Jolly Well Done" | 20 Mar 2023 | 00:35:38 | |
| Diana- Episode 1- "Better Than A Wank" | 20 Mar 2023 | 00:46:42 | |
| Mack and Mabel - Part 2 | 14 Feb 2023 | 01:00:25 | |
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman | |||
| Mack and Mabel- Part 1 | 06 Feb 2023 | 00:41:57 | |
Music and Lyrics- Jerry Herman | |||
| Sherry - "A Lovely Liver's About To Die" | 16 Jan 2023 | 01:05:46 | |
| Breakfast At Tiffany's - "A Bucket Of Ribs, A Bottle Of Corn" | 07 Nov 2022 | 01:02:52 | |
Breakfast at Tiffany's- 1966 - Majestic Theatre | |||
| Lysistrata Jones- "Give Up Givin' It Up!" | 03 Oct 2022 | 00:51:53 | |
Lysistrata Jones- Walter Kerr- 2011 | |||
| Subways Are For Sleeping- "Wake up. Get Out. Go up. Cross over." | 23 May 2022 | 01:08:55 | |
| Anyone Can Whistle- Part 2 | 28 Feb 2022 | 00:52:31 | |
Join John, Marla, and Special Guest, Connor McAndrews on our first Sondheim flop adventure. Find Connor on Insta @connormcandrews and @southphillybarefootcontessa | |||
| Anyone Can Whistle- Part 1 | 22 Feb 2022 | 00:47:39 | |
Join John, Marla, and Special Guest, Connor McAndrews on our first Sondheim flop adventure. Find Connor on Insta @connormcandrews and @southphillybarefootcontessa | |||
| Home Sweet Homer- Was He Guarding or Barding? | 17 Jan 2022 | 01:04:18 | |
Home Sweet Homer- 1976- The Palace Theatre | |||
| Smile - "Where the Hell is my Diaphragm?" | 22 Dec 2021 | 01:05:06 | |
Join John and special guest Marc Tumminelli, as they discuss a pageant of a disaster. If Marla is your least favorite co-host of Flop of the Heap, this is the episode for you! | |||
| Dance of the Vampires- "I'll Show You Yours, If You Show Me Mine" | 25 Oct 2021 | 01:02:10 | |
The Halloween Special No One Asked For. | |||
| Triumph of Love- "Hey Mona Justa Say Cheesa" | 18 Oct 2021 | 00:54:46 | |
How could a musical with so many great actors fail so miserably? | |||
| Legs Diamond- "Let Me See Your Knockers" | 02 Aug 2021 | 01:10:30 | |
We're serving up a legendary flop this week! What does a flamboyant Australian pop singer have in common with a ruthless New York mobster? Aside from having a pair of legs, probably not much. | |||
| Raggedy Ann- "You're Sick, Sick, Sick" | 20 Jul 2021 | 01:05:49 | |
Join us as we explore Raggedy Ann, not the beloved children's' doll, but the brutally panned musical featuring said beloved children's' doll... and lots of death. How did a show written by the man who brought us "C is for Cookie" get so very dark? Let's find out! | |||
| The Rink- “An Emancipated Pain In My Ass” | 05 Jul 2021 | 01:06:58 | |
Strap on your rollerskates, as we follow Chita Rivera, Liza Minelli, and Jason Alexander on this journey that looks much more like a brutal roller derby match, than a relaxing lap around the rink. | |||
| Wildcat- “We’d Get the Spanish Flu” | 21 Jun 2021 | 01:03:44 | |
John and Marla go West to search for Broadway Oil, and find only tar. Find out what made Lucille Ball’s only musical performance so “lame.” Shenanigans ensue. | |||
| Taboo- "Did You See the Size of That!?" | 07 Jun 2021 | 01:10:39 | |
A very special pride episode! Heart on our sleeves, eye shadow in our creases, we take a trip to 1980s London, to meet Boy George and the Blitz Kids. | |||
| Via Galactica- "Shall We Friend" | 26 Apr 2021 | 01:03:00 | |
Shall we friend? Shall we, friend? Shall we friend. Shall, we friend. Shall we friend! Shall, we, friend! Fan of Sci-fi? You won't be after this episode. | |||
| Tenderloin- "Reverend Brock Testifies!!!" | 12 Apr 2021 | 01:00:23 | |
Tenderloin is on the menu, and it is a bit tough. If you are, both, pious and kick line-adverse, this is the show for you. | |||
| Dance A Little Closer- "Headin' For Armageddon" | 29 Mar 2021 | 00:57:38 | |
It's the end of the world as we know it!... for the cast and crew of this 1980s flop. Nuclear war has never been less interesting, and singing about it should help, but it doesn't. Take shelter, and give this one a listen. | |||
| The Capeman- "Killer Wants To Go To College" | 10 Mar 2021 | 00:59:21 | |
There's been a murder!... committed by all your favorite theatre critics. Can Paul Simon adeptly write a musical about a gang murder? Would Art have done better? Find out in this "Salsa Sunset Boulevard" of a musical. | |||
| Urban Cowboy- "Mr. Striggity-Strong" | 23 Feb 2021 | 00:54:43 | |
Yee-Haw! Flop of the Heap goes Country in this newest episode, as we explore a beer-soaked musical, adapted from a beer-drenched movie, tailored out of a beer-logged Esquire article, that should have stuck to print. | |||
| 70, Girls, 70- "Shock Her Off Her Rocker" | 12 Feb 2021 | 01:00:33 | |
Old age can be fun, right? Well, if that's true, 70, Girls, 70 is going to need to make a better case for it. Come listen as John and Mark shuffle their way through this band of medicated minstrels, and emerge having learnt no new life lessons. | |||
| BONUS- Cut Out of Town- Prince of Central Park | 01 Feb 2021 | 00:16:49 | |
A compilation of yuk-yuks that didn't make the final cut in our Prince of Central Park episode, along with a special "Critical Reception" that just wasn't Broadway ready. | |||
| Prince of Central Park- "Through Cr*p-Colored Glasses" (With Guests, Richard H. Blake and Tony Galde) | 29 Jan 2021 | 01:04:10 | |
A show with a mistreated orphan, drugs, violent gangs, and 80s aerobics, mixed with the pizzazz and flash of a standard, cookie cutter Broadway Musical? What could go wrong? Mark and John, navigate the podcast's first interview, with Broadway stars Richard H. Blake and Tony Galde, and with their guidance, discover what made Prince abdicate its throne at the Belasco after four short performances. | |||