 FROM THE NEW YORK POST 11/20/09
The latest trend in New York theater: reviving the biggest flops of all time.
Another famous flop that may come back is Paul Simon´s ´The Capeman,´ which lost $11 million on Broadway in 1998 and earned Simon the nickname ´The Flopman.´
Sources say Oskar Eustis, the head of the Public Theater, is in talks with Simon about bringing the show back next year.
´Oskar has met with Paul Simon, but there are not concrete plans at this time.´
Eustis, sources say, wants to do a concert version of the show. The book -- by Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott -- will pretty much be eliminated.
´Born in Puerto Rico,´ ´Satin Summer Nights´ and the gorgeous ´Time Is an Ocean´ are first-rate songs that got lost in the mess that wound up on Broadway.
Simon performed songs from ´The Capeman´ at BAM last year, which is where Eustis got the idea of bringing back the show.
It is said that Simon might perform in the Public Theater version as well.(really not confirmed!)
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/flop
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