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Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway

By: Robert W. Scheider & Broadway Podcast Network
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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!Broadway Podcast Network Art Entertainment & Performing Arts World
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  • Pleasures and Palaces (1965)

    Pleasures and Palaces (1965)
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    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
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  • Up From Paradise (1983)

    Up From Paradise (1983)
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    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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  • All About Us (1999)

    All About Us (1999)
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    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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