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, brilliant, and bold musicals that tried to get themselves on the Great Bright Way!
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GENE BARRY in Spotlight/Watergate: The Musical
#42 trending · Performing Arts
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 not one but
Sep 10 1 h 16 min
ROBERT 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 one.
This
Aug 27 1 h 14 min
JERRY 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 ambitious, so
Aug 13 43 min
BETTE 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 go wrong? E
Jul 30 45 min
ANGELA 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 murderous n
Jul 16 43 min
BEA 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 stage mother so
Jul 2 1 h 02 min
SEASON 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 would be
Jun 25 4 min
Bounce (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 life
Jul 22 2025 1 h 30 min
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 pers
Jul 8 2025 1 h 16 min
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, a
Jun 24 2025 1 h 25 min
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
Jun 11 2025 1 h 15 min
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
May 27 2025 1 h 00 min
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, Be
May 13 2025 1 h 06 min
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 m
Apr 29 2025 1 h 14 min
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 sm
Apr 15 2025 1 h 33 min
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 Li
Apr 1 2025 1 h 06 min
Annie 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 show will
Mar 18 2025 1 h 32 min
Season 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 their sights
Mar 5 2025 4 min
Gone 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 Japanese cul
Apr 4 2024 1 h 10 min
Paper 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 machina at Pa
Mar 28 2024 1 h 29 min
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If you are ever feeling down, listen to Rob W. Schneider’s “Gone With the Wind” episode. All the Broadway Bound episodes are superb, but the “Bonnie Gone” segment of the “Gone With the Wind” episode will make you double over with intense laughter and joy. Who would have thought that a podcast about failed Broadway-aspiring musicals would be so life-affirming?
EdgarPW · Apr 2025
Five stars for Rib’a erudition, his great voice, and the perfect tone he sets for these stories. Never mocking, but always a wry sense of humor peeking through all the history. The “anyway,” Rob, is because you need to be more careful with your editing! (I say this as a non professional but I assume we needn’t hear the actor refer to a “page turn…”.) Am looking forward to next season! Prettybelle? Kelly? The Lady Comes Across? xoxo
Jeff, Chicago · Sep 2024
Very enjoyable series on huge Broadway failures that closed on the road. The best part is listening to folks who were eye witnesses to these debacles. We get interviews with some of the actors and even a producer! There remarks are candid and seen from the perspective of 20-30 years (or more) later. We are also treated to recreations of the scripts and live recordings of the scores. Busker Alley was a treat to hear as well as a couple of fine numbers from Paper Moon. For all those who curious about just what went wrong (a lot!), this is essential listening!
Billhaven · Mar 2024
This is a great deal of fun. Pure, inside-baseball storytelling from a host whose quips never get tiresome. This is like having drinks with an old Broadway friend, the kind who gets you comps to the ailing show he’s assistant-stage-managing, who promises to tell you why the part Elaine Stritch was playing has just been offered to Sandy Duncan AND Billy Porter, but “Don’t say a word, because none of them know about each other… YET… but listen to what went down in rehearsal today…”
Well-produced, researched, and delivered. I can’t get enough. I’m on my third episode, and hope this never ends.
mrChuck · Mar 2024
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