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    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 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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    BARBARA COOK in Halloween Sep 24, 2026
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    Barbara Cook is one of the greatest voices Broadway has ever produced. Which makes Halloween one of the strangest chapters in her story.

    This week, we explore a musical about witches, ghosts, and suburban eccentrics—but more importantly, an artist standing at a crossroads. Because sometimes a flop isn't the end of a career. Sometimes it's intermission before Act Two.

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    GENE BARRY in Spotlight/Watergate: The Musical Sep 10, 2026
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    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 two Broadway-bound curiosities: Spotlight and Watergate. The real story isn't politics. It's about Broadway's eternal belief that absolutely anything can become a musical. Sometimes that belief gives us Hamilton. Sometimes it gives us this.

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    ROBERT PRESTON in We Take The Town/The Prince of Grand Street Aug 27, 2026
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    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 week, we look at We Take the Town and The Prince of Grand Street, two fascinating near-misses that reveal a star stubbornly refusing to become his own tribute act. It's a story about reinvention, risk-taking, and the terrible burden of being Harold Hill forever.

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    JERRY LEWIS in Hellzapoppin Aug 13, 2026
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    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 expensive, and so gloriously overstuffed that it practically collapsed under the weight of its own enthusiasm.

    This week, we explore the age-old Broadway question: when does confidence become hubris? Or, put another way, how many clowns can you fit into one flop?

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    BETTE DAVIS in Miss Moffat Jul 30, 2026
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    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? Everything.

    This week, we tell the story of Miss Moffat, the legendary out-of-town disaster that finally met its match in an equally legendary star. At its heart, this isn't a story about a flop. It's about what happens when Broadway and Bette Davis both expect to be the boss.

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    ANGELA LANSBURY in Prettybelle Jul 16, 2026
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    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 nephew. But could she survive a musical about a Southern woman who decides the solution to racism is......well, you just need to listen to this episode about the Styne/Merrill musical Prettybelle

    This week, we examine one of the most baffling concepts ever set to music and discover how one of Broadway's most beloved stars managed to walk away from a catastrophe with her reputation not only intact—but somehow improved.

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    BEA ARTHUR in A Mother's Kisses Jul 02, 2026
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    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 terrifying she makes Mama Rose look like Maria Von Trapp.

    This week, we explore the show that seemed perfectly suited to Bea's talents and ask a simple question: can a star be too right for a role?

    Along the way, we'll uncover a musical that wasn't really about Broadway at all—it was about what happens when nobody in the room is willing to blink first.

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    SEASON THREE Teaser: I'm The Greatest Star Jun 25, 2026
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    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 their next triumph... and discovered it had other plans.

    Join Robert W. Schneider as he explores the stories behind Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Bea Arthur, Jerry Lewis, Ginger Rogers, Anthony Newley, Barbara Cook, Robert Preston, Gene Barry, Randy Quaid, and the Broadway-bound musicals that never quite made it.

    It's a season about ambition, celebrity, ego, reinvention, and the glorious chaos that happens when legends collide with live theater.

    Season 3, I'm the Greatest Star, premieres July 2, 2026. Subscribe now so you don't miss a single flop.

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    Bounce (2003) Jul 22, 2025
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    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 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 fruition.

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    Pleasures and Palaces (1965) Jul 08, 2025
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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!

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