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* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] struggled with this after the mega-hit, ''[[The Mikado]]''. Gilbert darkly suggested renaming their next operetta (''Ruddigore'') ''Kensington Gore: Or, Not Quite So Good as The Mikado''. Given that it was greeted with shouts of "BRING BACK THE MIKADO!" from the galleries, his bitterness was arguably justified.
** ''[[Ruddigore]]'' was erroneously considered a flop in Gilbert's lifetime; [[Special Effect Failure]] on its opening night may have contributed to its underwhelming reception. 20th century revivals restored the work's reputation.
* Meredith Willson's first Broadway musical, ''[[The Music Man]]'', achieved great popular and critical success. Of his three subsequent musicals, each was less successful and less distinguished than the previous one, with his final show (''1491'') closing before reaching Broadway.
* Mitch Leigh had an even worse record: all the musicals he wrote after ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' were atrocious flops.
* Pietro Mascagni, whose fame rests on his debut ''Cavalleria Rusticana'', went on to compose another 14 operas. All are forgotten by the time of his death. It is especially lamentable because, as the rare revivals attest, some of these works (like ''Iris'' and ''Il piccolo Marat'') show great artistic vision and experimentation. But sorry, the public is looking for another ''Cav''.
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* Boublil and Schonberg followed up ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Miserables]]'' with ''[[Miss Saigon]]'', a critical and popular smash that introduced the world to a seventeen-year-old Filipina phenom named Lea Salonga. But not even ''[[Miss Saigon]]'' can top the longest-running, best-written, best-loved, best-known, and quite possibly ''best'' musical ever produced. Interestingly, ''Les Mis'' is '''so good''' that no one really cares what Boublil and Schonberg have gotten up to since - they wrote ''Les Mis'' and are therefore entitled to write whatever else they damn please.
* Even though [[Stephen Schwartz]] was well known at the time, this could almost be said to apply to [[Wicked]]. Nothing he did before it even comes close to Wicked's level of popularity and revivals of some of his older work (notably [[Godspell]] which is returning to Broadway) now carry the advertisement: From the creator of Wicked (with occasionally [[Pippin]] being mentioned as an afterthought).
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