Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway
Episodes
Bounce (2003)
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Pleasures and Palaces (1965)
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Up From Paradise (1983)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I never miss an Arthur Miller musical! Yes, you read that correctly. Arthur Miller, the voice of gritty American realism, whose plays confronted ca...
All About Us (1999)
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Grover’s Corners (1987)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1960, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt created theater history when their whimsical musical, The Fantasticks, the little show that no one believed in, ...
Bonanza Bound (1947)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
1491 (1969)
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before Lin Manuel Miranda....before Jason Robert Brown....before Jonathan Larson....there was Meredith Willson, the one man band who gave the world it...
Home Again, Home Again (1979)
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wa...
Lolita, My Love (1971)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (1990)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 anot...
Season 2 Trailer: You're Only As Good As Your Last
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that ...
Gone With The Wind: The Musical (1974)
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Paper Moon (1993)
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
The Baker's Wife (1976)
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 firing...
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Musical (1966)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 musica...
Juliet of the Spirits (1979)
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gwen Verdon was Charity. Raul Julia was Guido. Angela Lansbury was Juliet......then was not. Federico Fellini was Italy’s most iconic film director ...
The Mambo Kings: The Musical (2005)
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was supposed to be the musical that turned Latinx characters in musical theater from hoodlums and gang members to heroes and inspirations! A musica...
Minsky's (2009)
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Busker Alley (1995)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy Tune. The boy genius of Broadway. He dazzled audiences onstage in his Tony Award winning performance in Seesaw. Then he kept reinventing himself...
The Graduate: The Musical (1988)
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 y...
Arthur: The Musical (1991)
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway Teaser
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Broadway historian, director, and all around MT nerd Robert W. Schneider for a wild and exhaustively researched celebration of the musicals that ...