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!
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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!
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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.....
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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.
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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!
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Über 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!
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