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Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway

Robert W. Scheider & Broadway Podcast Network

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

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91:02

Bounce (2003)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/07/22

60 Songs50 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 life to the true story of 1920s schemers Addison and Wilson Mizner. Whether you knew it as A Sentimental Guy, Wise Guys, Gold, Get Rich Quick, Bounce, or Road Show, this episode will give you a glimpse into never before heard communication between some of Broadway's most prolific minds as they all work to bring Sondheim's dream to

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77:23

Pleasures and Palaces (1965)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/07/08

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

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86:21

Up From Paradise (1983)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/06/24

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

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76:44

All About Us (1999)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/06/11

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

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61:46

Grover’s Corners (1987)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/05/27

In 1960, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt created theaterhistory 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,

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67:04

Bonanza Bound (1947)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/05/13

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 thatgave 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

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75:39

1491 (1969)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/04/29

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

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92:15

Home Again, Home Again (1979)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/04/15

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,

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67:55

Lolita, My Love (1971)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/04/01

Trigger Warning: This episode deals with pedophiliaIf 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

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93:13

Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (1990)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/03/18

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 show will run forever!” Thirteen years later, Charnin, Strouse, and Meehan looked at one another on the opening night of Annie 2 and said another five words to one another “We wrote the wrong show.” See what happened was…..well, guess you will need to find out for yourself when we explore how the geniuses behind Annie 1 struggled to find

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4:18

Season 2 Trailer: You're Only As Good As Your Last

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2025/03/05

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. This trailer looks at the second season of Broadway Bound which is called "YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST" and 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

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70:54

Gone With The Wind: The Musical (1974)

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2024/04/04

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 Japanese culture and it was giving its citizens home grown movies, literature, plays, and paintings but it had not given its public a musical that was cultivated in Japan. So what better option than an hour adaptation of Gone With The Wind? Well, what happened was…..well were gonna let Miss Scarlett herself, Lesley Ann Warren, tell you in this

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89:57

Paper Moon (1993)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/03/28

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 machina at Paramount Studios, we will never, ever see a musical that everyone says was one of the greatest musicals of the 1990s. Starring Christine Ebersole, Gregory Harrison, and......wait, why should I tell you when book writer Martin Casella and ensemble members John Bolton and Christopher Sieber can as they back on 1993's Paper

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83:44

The Baker's Wife (1976)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/03/21

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 as Paul Sorvino's range have in common? They were all part of the madcap, wild, manic, and tumultuous ride of Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein's The Baker's Wife.Get ready as original cast members Carole Demas, Kurt Peterson, Teri Ralston, as well as original press agent Joshua Ellis, look back on Topol, Patti LuPone, David Merrick, and a

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88:31

Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Musical (1966)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/03/14

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 adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Only problem is no one told him what they wanted...or expected... Soon, it was a troubled musical with different titles, different book-writers (including Edward Albee), America's cutest TV stars floundering without cameras, the Abominable Showman himself, David Merrick, and.....well, why have us tell you when

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71:00

Juliet of the Spirits (1979)

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2024/03/07

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 1960s so its no surprise that many of his films have been turned into musicals. But, there is a Fellini movie that screams to be a musical, even more so than any of the others and it almost was…with Angela Lansbury in the title role….grab a pizza, open some chianti, and get ready to hear all about the greatest musical that never was: Enter

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71:13

The Mambo Kings: The Musical (2005)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/02/29

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 was steeped in the rhythms of Latinx history and a story that would examine assimilation and appropriation within the immigration experience. So why was creator Arne Glimcher leaving his heart, and show, in San Francisco? Well you see what happened was…..well, we are going to let composer Carlos Frazetti tell us in this episode of Broadway Bound

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65:41

Minsky's (2009)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/02/22

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 from the big screen to the big stage and in between it would have three different lyricists, two different directors, two choreographers, but it would always have the same composer: Charles Strouse. Why was he so determined to get this movie to Broadway? Well, what happened was....We are going to let two time Tony Award winning director Casey

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57:33

Busker Alley (1995)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/02/15

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 director with The Club, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Cloud Nine, Nine, Grand Hotel, The Will Rogers Follies. Nothing could stop him except…..well, we’re gonna let producer Barry Weissler tell you in this week’s episode which explores the bone fracturing Busker Alley…I mean Stage Door Charley…I mean Buskers….I mean… Busker Alley? BROADWAY

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63:34

The Graduate: The Musical (1988)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway ·

2024/02/08

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 are going to keep going until every critic in New York is banging on a church window begging you to stop. And who is giving you these songs to sing, Mrs. Robinson? Simon and Garfunkel? Nope. Not at all. Sharing a xylophone (yes, a xylophone) were the man who wrote Funny Girl and the man who wrote Bat Out of Hell. What happened was… well we

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