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Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway
Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that had set their sights on Broadway but missed the mark. The third season of Broadway Bound is called "I'M THE GREATEST STAR" explores twelve Broadway Bound musicals that were starred major performers. From a Bea Arthur to Randy Quaid, Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway is sure to open your eyes to some of the most bizarre…
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Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayRANDY QUAID in Lone Star Love
A Broadway-bound musical based on The Merry Wives of Windsor. Music by the writers of The Red Clay Ramblers. A major star. A theater already booked. What could…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayANTHONY NEWLEY in Chaplin
Anthony Newley spent his career trying to convince audiences he was a genius. Sometimes they agreed. Then came Chaplin. This week, we tell the story of a…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayGINGER ROGERS in The Pink Jungle
For decades, Ginger Rogers made difficult things look effortless. Then she tried Broadway. This week, we examine The Pink Jungle, a musical that arrived at…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBARBARA COOK in Halloween
Barbara Cook is one of the greatest voices Broadway has ever produced. Which makes Halloween one of the strangest chapters in her story. This week, we explore…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayGENE BARRY in Spotlight/Watergate: The Musical
Somewhere in America, a producer once looked at Watergate and said, "You know what this scandal needs? A kick line." This week, we follow Gene Barry through…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayROBERT PRESTON in We Take The Town/The Prince of Grand Street
Most actors spend the rest of their lives trying to escape the role that made them famous. Robert Preston spent the rest of his career trying to find another…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayJERRY LEWIS in Hellzapoppin
Jerry Lewis looked at one of the craziest stage comedies ever written and thought, "Needs more Jerry Lewis." The result was Hellzapoppin' '76, a musical so…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBETTE DAVIS in Miss Moffat
By 1974, Bette Davis had spent forty years winning fights, collecting enemies, and becoming Bette Davis. Then she decided to do a musical. What could possibly…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayANGELA LANSBURY in Prettybelle
CW: This episode frequently mentions the word r**e in relation to the story Angela Lansbury survived murder mysteries, Tom Bosley's New England accent, and a…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBEA ARTHUR in A Mother's Kisses
Bea Arthur spent her career playing women who could level a grown man with a single look. So naturally she starred in A Mother's Kisses, a musical about a…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwaySEASON THREE Teaser: I'm The Greatest Star
Season 3 is almost here! This season on Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway, we're turning the spotlight on the stars who thought Broadway…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBounce (2003)
60 Songs 50 Years 9 Leads 5 Directors 4 Scripts 1 Sondheim We close our second season with the story of Stephen Sondheim's half century quest to bring musical…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayPleasures and Palaces (1965)
If I said to you I have a score by Guys and Dolls’ Frank Loesser, book by Kiss Me Kate’s Sam Spewack, directed by the one and only Bob Fosse, and starring…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayUp From Paradise (1983)
I never miss an Arthur Miller musical! Yes, you read that correctly. Arthur Miller, the voice of gritty American realism, whose plays confronted capitalism…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayAll About Us (1999)
What do Leonard Bernstein, James Joyce, woolly mammoths, Bebe Neuwirth, the ice age, and Mario Cantone all have in common? They all tried to succeed by the…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayGrover’s Corners (1987)
In 1960, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt created theater history when their whimsical musical, The Fantasticks, the little show that no one believed in, opened…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBonanza Bound (1947)
It might end up being one the longest partnerships in the history of the American Musical. Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the lyricists of On the Town…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway1491 (1969)
Before Lin Manuel Miranda....before Jason Robert Brown....before Jonathan Larson....there was Meredith Willson, the one man band who gave the world its most…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayHome Again, Home Again (1979)
Composer Cy Coleman gave Broadway some of its most iconic melodies: Big Spender, Real Live Girl, Hey, Look Me Over, and the list goes on and on. He was the…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayLolita, My Love (1971)
Trigger Warning: This episode deals with pedophilia If there was source material that no one ever thought could be a musical, you would go to one man to write…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayAnnie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (1990)
In 1977, Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse, and Thomas Meehan, looked at one another on the opening night of Annie and said five magic words to one another “This…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwaySeason 2 Trailer: You're Only As Good As Your Last
Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that had set…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayGone With The Wind: The Musical (1974)
When we think of "out of town" tryouts we think of Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Detroit, Tokyo….. Yes, Tokyo! In the 1970s Tokyo had become the center of…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayPaper Moon (1993)
This one is a heart-breaker, friends. A real, honest to Sondheim heart-breaker. Like Avenue Q beating Wicked heart-breaker because, unless without a deus ex…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayThe Baker's Wife (1976)
What do a nine minute song about a bird, the chest hair of Israel's greatest entertainer, an FBI pursuit of a missing lead sheet, and a list of firings as long…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBreakfast at Tiffany's: The Musical (1966)
What happens when the doctor becomes the patient? Abe Burrows, the greatest script doctor of the Golden Age, had agreed to direct and write the musical…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayJuliet of the Spirits (1979)
Gwen Verdon was Charity. Raul Julia was Guido. Angela Lansbury was Juliet......then was not. Federico Fellini was Italy’s most iconic film director of the…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayThe Mambo Kings: The Musical (2005)
It was supposed to be the musical that turned Latinx characters in musical theater from hoodlums and gang members to heroes and inspirations! A musical that…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayMinsky's (2009)
Some musicals have all the luck...and them some do not. Minsky's is one that does not. It would take thirty plus years for this cult classic to make its way…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBusker Alley (1995)
Tommy Tune. The boy genius of Broadway. He dazzled audiences onstage in his Tony Award winning performance in Seesaw. Then he kept reinventing himself as a…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayThe Graduate: The Musical (1988)
Are you trying to musicalize me, Mrs. Robinson? Oh, yes, Benjamin Braddock, they are trying to musicalize you, and Mrs. Robinson, and Elaine, all of you. They…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayArthur: The Musical (1991)
So no one told you creating musicals was going to be this way? (clap, clap, clap) Now you might be asking, what in the name of Smelly Cat does the TV show…
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayBroadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway Teaser
Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that had set…