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* This happened very quickly with Sophocles [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus Rex]]. When it first played it won second place. Nowadays it's widely considered one of the best works of tragedy, not just in Greek drama but in all drama, while we don't even know the name of the play that beat it. Even at the time it was considered a defining piece of tragedy, with Creator/{{Aristotle}} the following century writing glowingly of it as best fitting how drama should be made.
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* This happened very quickly with Sophocles [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Sophocles' ''[[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus Rex]].Rex]]''. When it first played it won second place. Nowadays it's widely considered one of the best works of tragedy, not just in Greek drama but in all drama, while we don't even know the name of the play that beat it. Even at the time it was considered a defining piece of tragedy, with Creator/{{Aristotle}} the following century writing glowingly of it as best fitting how drama should be made.
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* ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' got off to a thoroughly rocky start. The libretto had been set earlier by a rival composer, Music/GiovanniPaisiello, who took offense to Rossini composing his own version and sent a cabal of supporters to disrupt the opening night. Reportedly, they did so and then some, complete with hooting, laughter, and jeers. The performance also suffered from bad luck during staging, with one singer tripping and falling just before his big aria, being forced to sing it with a bloody nose. In addition, a wayward cat wandered onstage and refused to leave, finally being flung off by a cast member. ''Barber'' has since become Rossini's most famous and best-loved opera.
* Music/IgorStravinsky's ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring'' caused a scandal (complete with yelling and fisticuffs between audience members) at its 1913 premiere because of its dissonant sonic palette and the primitive rawness of its choreography, though the piece immediately entered the standard concert repertoire. Today, it is one of the most popular, important, influential and famous classical works of the 20th century.
* ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'', Music/BelaBartok's sole opera, was rejected by the Hungarian Fine Arts Commission as unstageworthy when Bartok submitted it for an award. It wasn't performed until 5 years later, but is now considered one of Bartok's most important works, and, despite its unusually small cast causing some difficulty - it only has two main characters, and three silent roles, which is a little awkward if you have a large group of performers on retainer - it receives regular performance.
* None of Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's three ballets, ''Theatre/SwanLake'', ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', were popular in his lifetime, but have since become some of the most famous and loved ballet music the world has ever seen.
* Opening night of the opera ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' by Music/GiacomoPuccini was a catastrophe. The performance was under-rehearsed, the work having been finished at the last minute, and thus was insecurely presented. The audience jeered, hissed, laughed, and yelled throughout the performance, at one point catcalling that the main female character was pregnant! To make matters worse, the audience had been given bird whistles to blow into, meant to accompany the dawn after Butterfly's sleepless night; these were instead used to general disruptive effect by the audience. Puccini hastily pulled the work after opening night and revised it extensively. It subsequently met with great success and immediately entered the operatic repertoire.
* Music/IgorStravinsky's ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring'' caused a scandal (complete with yelling and fisticuffs between audience members) at its 1913 premiere because of its dissonant sonic palette and the primitive rawness of its choreography, though the piece immediately entered the standard concert repertoire. Today, it is one of the most popular, important, influential and famous classical works of the 20th century.
* ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'', Music/BelaBartok's sole opera, was rejected by the Hungarian Fine Arts Commission as unstageworthy when Bartok submitted it for an award. It wasn't performed until 5 years later, but is now considered one of Bartok's most important works, and, despite its unusually small cast causing some difficulty - it only has two main characters, and three silent roles, which is a little awkward if you have a large group of performers on retainer - it receives regular performance.
* None of Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's three ballets, ''Theatre/SwanLake'', ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', were popular in his lifetime, but have since become some of the most famous and loved ballet music the world has ever seen.
* Opening night of the opera ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' by Music/GiacomoPuccini was a catastrophe. The performance was under-rehearsed, the work having been finished at the last minute, and thus was insecurely presented. The audience jeered, hissed, laughed, and yelled throughout the performance, at one point catcalling that the main female character was pregnant! To make matters worse, the audience had been given bird whistles to blow into, meant to accompany the dawn after Butterfly's sleepless night; these were instead used to general disruptive effect by the audience. Puccini hastily pulled the work after opening night and revised it extensively. It subsequently met with great success and immediately entered the operatic repertoire.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare was a popular and commercially successful playwright of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at the time, and certainly a man of reasonable fame; however, in his day and age, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, Ben Jonson (who ''did'' help in promoting the Bard with the First Folio Dedication), Creator/ThomasMiddleton (exceptional writers all of them) were more famous and well-regarded as the pre-eminent playwright while Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney would be considered the pre-eminent poet.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare was a popular and commercially successful playwright of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at the time, and certainly a man of reasonable fame; however, in his day and age, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, Ben Jonson Creator/BenJonson (who ''did'' help in promoting the Bard with the First Folio Dedication), Creator/ThomasMiddleton (exceptional writers all of them) were more famous and well-regarded as the pre-eminent playwright while Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney would be considered the pre-eminent poet.
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* Indeed, the overall Elizabethan/Jacobean Age saw a revival in reputation. John Webster's tragedies, ''The White Devil'' and ''The Duchess of Malfi'' came to be staged (even leading to film adaptations) far more often, with the likes of Creator/TSEliot arguing that Webster showed "the skull within the skin". The extreme violence which typified these plays and drove off critics (who saw them as shlock) came to be seen as cool in the 20th Century. Creator/ThomasMiddleton's plays and comedies likewise underwent a revival as did Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy. Today, Shakespeare is seen as the most prolific and successful of a GoldenAge rather than its sole representative.
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* Indeed, the overall Elizabethan/Jacobean Age saw a revival in reputation. John Webster's tragedies, ''The White Devil'' and ''The Duchess of Malfi'' came to be staged (even leading to film adaptations) far more often, with the likes of Creator/TSEliot arguing that Webster showed "the skull within the skin". The extreme violence which typified these plays and drove off critics (who saw them as shlock) came to be seen as cool in the 20th Century. Creator/ThomasMiddleton's plays and comedies likewise underwent a revival as did Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy. Today, Shakespeare is seen as the most prolific and successful of a GoldenAge golden age rather than its sole representative.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare was a popular and commercially successful playwright of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at the time, and certainly a man of reasonable fame; however, in his day and age, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, Ben Jonson (who ''did'' help in promoting the Bard with the First Folio Dedication), Thomas Middleton (exceptional writers all of them) were more famous and well-regarded as the pre-eminent playwright while Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney would be considered the pre-eminent poet.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare was a popular and commercially successful playwright of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at the time, and certainly a man of reasonable fame; however, in his day and age, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, Ben Jonson (who ''did'' help in promoting the Bard with the First Folio Dedication), Thomas Middleton Creator/ThomasMiddleton (exceptional writers all of them) were more famous and well-regarded as the pre-eminent playwright while Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney would be considered the pre-eminent poet.
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* Indeed, the overall Elizabethan/Jacobean Age saw a revival in reputation. John Webster's tragedies, ''The White Devil'' and ''The Duchess of Malfi'' came to be staged (even leading to film adaptations) far more often, with the likes of Creator/TSEliot arguing that Webster showed "the skull within the skin". The extreme violence which typified these plays and drove off critics (who saw them as shlock) came to be seen as cool in the 20th Century. Thomas Middleton's plays and comedies likewise underwent a revival as did Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy. Today, Shakespeare is seen as the most prolific and successful of a GoldenAge rather than its sole representative.
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* Indeed, the overall Elizabethan/Jacobean Age saw a revival in reputation. John Webster's tragedies, ''The White Devil'' and ''The Duchess of Malfi'' came to be staged (even leading to film adaptations) far more often, with the likes of Creator/TSEliot arguing that Webster showed "the skull within the skin". The extreme violence which typified these plays and drove off critics (who saw them as shlock) came to be seen as cool in the 20th Century. Thomas Middleton's Creator/ThomasMiddleton's plays and comedies likewise underwent a revival as did Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy. Today, Shakespeare is seen as the most prolific and successful of a GoldenAge rather than its sole representative.
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* The musical ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' originally opened on Broadway in 1975 and, while not an outright flop [[note]]It ran for a total of 936 performances, a little over two years[[/note]], received mixed reviews and was overshadowed at the Tony Awards by the smash hit ''Theatre/AChorusLine''. The show seemed destined to be mostly forgotten until 1996 when City Center Encores! [[note]]an NYC theatre company dedicated to mounting concert versions of obscure musicals[[/note]] mounted a stripped-down version, which proved surprisingly popular and paved the way for a Broadway revival a short time later. The revival was an immediate hit and continues to run as of 2018 - currently second only to ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' for the longest-running show in Broadway history. (Ironically, it surpassed ''A Chorus Line''[='=]s original run in 2011.) Many critics have suggested that audiences in 1996 - weary of the then-recent O.J. Simpson trial - were more receptive to the musical’s cynical view of celebrity and the media than they were in TheSeventies. Indeed, one program described it as "Outrageous in the Twenties [when the original play debuted], controversial in the Seventies, and now reads like a documentary."
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* The musical ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' originally opened on Broadway in 1975 and, while not an outright flop [[note]]It ran for a total of 936 performances, a little over two years[[/note]], received mixed reviews and was overshadowed at the Tony Awards by the smash hit ''Theatre/AChorusLine''. The show seemed destined to be mostly forgotten until 1996 when City Center Encores! [[note]]an NYC theatre company dedicated to mounting concert versions of obscure musicals[[/note]] mounted a stripped-down version, which proved surprisingly popular and paved the way for a Broadway revival a short time later. The revival was an immediate hit and continues to run as of 2018 - currently second only to ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' for the longest-running show in Broadway history.history, and the longest running American musical ever. (Ironically, it surpassed ''A Chorus Line''[='=]s original run in 2011.) Many critics have suggested that audiences in 1996 - weary of the then-recent O.J. Simpson trial - were more receptive to the musical’s cynical view of celebrity and the media than they were in TheSeventies. Indeed, one program described it as "Outrageous in the Twenties [when the original play debuted], controversial in the Seventies, and now reads like a documentary."
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* Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'' was initially considered a failure when put on in 1887. This verdict is somewhat harsh, since it was run directly following the smash hit ''Theatre/TheMikado'' and had an entirely respectable first run of 288 performances. It did actually enjoy a bit of success later on in the run, but it wasn't put in the regular Gilbert and Sullivan canon until the 1920s where it has remained ever since.
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* Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'' was initially considered a failure when put on in 1887. This verdict is somewhat harsh, since it was run directly following the smash hit ''Theatre/TheMikado'' and had an entirely respectable first run of 288 performances. [[note]]Gilbert later said of the "failure" label, "I could do with more such failures."[[/note]] It did actually enjoy a bit of success later on in the run, but it wasn't put in the regular Gilbert and Sullivan canon until the 1920s where it has remained ever since.
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* This happened very quickly with Sophocles [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus Rex]]. When it first played it won second place. Nowadays it's widely considered one of the best works of tragedy, not just in Greek drama but in all drama, while we don't even know the name of the play that beat it. Even at the time it was considered a defining piece of tragedy, with Creator/Aristotle the following century writing glowingly of it as best fitting how drama should be made.
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* This happened very quickly with Sophocles [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus Rex]]. When it first played it won second place. Nowadays it's widely considered one of the best works of tragedy, not just in Greek drama but in all drama, while we don't even know the name of the play that beat it. Even at the time it was considered a defining piece of tragedy, with Creator/Aristotle Creator/{{Aristotle}} the following century writing glowingly of it as best fitting how drama should be made.
