Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway

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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 second season of Broadway Bound is called "YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST" explores ten Broadway Bound musicals that were written by major songwriters. From a foul mouthed Little Orphan Annie to dancing woolly mammoths, Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway is sure to open your eyes to some of the most bizarre, brilliant, and bold musicals that tried to get themselves on the Great Bright Way!

  1. Pleasures and Palaces (1965)

    JUL 8

    Pleasures 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 television personality Phyllis Newman, you’d probably ask where could you invest because this is gonna be bigger than talking pictures! But, it wasn’t? Why? Why did all of these wonderful people struggle with making Russian expansion funny and musical? Well…..why is Frank Loesser’s Pleasures and Palaces even worth talking about? What if I told you it was the show that created the Fosse dancer. See what happened was…..well, you will need to listen to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 17m
  2. Up From Paradise (1983)

    JUN 24

    Up 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, communism, and catastrophe one day woke up and decided to be the next Jerry Herman. You see what happened was.... Well, you will need to listen to our episode about UP FROM PARADISE to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 26m
  3. All About Us (1999)

    JUN 11

    All 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 skin of their teeth in John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joseph Stein's musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's meta-theatrical experience titled The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Over and Over, All About Us..... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 17m
  4. Grover's Corners (1987)

    MAY 27

    Grover'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 and would not close until forty years later. Twenty-seven years later they would say “Smart New York money says we're not what's happening at the moment. We are perceived as the past. The perspective of us needs to be altered,” and so they plunged head first into musicalizing the play that had inspired them to create theater in the first place, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. But why, almost forty years later, no one will ever get to hear it? See what happened was…..well, guess you will need to find out for yourself when we explore how the geniuses behind The Fantasticks struggled against the tides of British imports to bring musical life to Grover’s Corners, with a cast of characters ranging from Gene Kelly to Angela Lansbury to Peter Pan herself, Mary Martin.   If you like what we are doing DONATE HERE Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that qualify as fair use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 2m
  5. Bonanza Bound (1947)

    MAY 13

    Bonanza 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, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi, Applause, On the 20th Century, the screenplay writers of Singing in the Rain, and the duo that gave the world phrases like “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town!” “Never Never land!” “Make Someone Happy” “The Party’s Over” and so many others. But, all of that amazing work might not have happened if they had brought their gold rush musical, Bonanza Bound, onto Broadway when they were first starting out! Grab your sleds and huskies because there is gold in them that hills….and by hills I mean Philadelphia where we will look at 1947’s Bonanza Bound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 7m
  6. 1491 (1969)

    APR 29

    1491 (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 American of musicals, The Music Man. But what happens when the music man wants to change his tune? And change it while being confronted with every major life crisis imaginable? Join Christopher Columbus, Meredith Willson, and Chita Rivera in a madcap adventure through one of the trickiest musicals to sink on its way to Broadway: 1491 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 16m
  7. Home Again, Home Again (1979)

    APR 15

    Home 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 King of 60s smooth swing and had never once closed a show out of town….until…. Along with a wild crew including a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a testy choreographer, a director unsure of the material, and a leading man who was as eccentric offstage as he was on, Cy Coleman tried to bring a bucolic morality musical to life but Home Again, Home Again shuttered in Canada. But soon Coleman had an idea for his next musical! A musical about a musical whose wild crew included a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a testy choreographer, a director unsure of the material, and a leading man who was as eccentric offstage as he was on, as they all careened to opening on the great bright way. See what happened was…well, you will just need to jump into our episode focusing on Baker’s Dozen/Home Again/Home Again Home Again/10 Days to Broadway/13 Days to Broadway…..yes….there are more titles. If you like what we are doing DONATE HERE Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that qualify as fair use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 34m
  8. Lolita, My Love (1971)

    APR 1

    Lolita, 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 it. Not Lin Manuel Miranda. Not Stephen Sondheim. Not even Oscar Hammerstein. You would go to lyricist Alan Jay Lerner who, along with Frederick Loewe, created Brigadoon, Camelot, and the juggernaut known as My Fair Lady. But when Loewe chooses to retire, and Broadway moves to pop, Alan Jay Lerner has two options. He can either retire himself OR try to outdo the current crop of edgy young songwriters who are putting sex, drugs, rock and roll onstage. Could Lerner top them all with the adding songs to the most scandalous book ever written? See what happened was….well, you will need to find out for yourself when we see what happened when Alan Jay Lerner tried to get audiences excited about turning Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a book centered on the adoration of nymphets, into a big old musical called Lolita, My Love! If you like what we are doing DONATE HERE Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that qualify as fair use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 8m
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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 second season of Broadway Bound is called "YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST" explores ten Broadway Bound musicals that were written by major songwriters. From a foul mouthed Little Orphan Annie to dancing woolly mammoths, Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway is sure to open your eyes to some of the most bizarre, brilliant, and bold musicals that tried to get themselves on the Great Bright Way!

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