Some Broadway shows run for years, and some run just a few weeks. But there is a smaller group鈥攐ften created by major talents鈥攖hat close during tryouts or even during previews and never get to open at all.
These shows will get a second chance in the limelight at Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway, at 7 and 9:30 PM October 25, at Feinstein鈥檚/54 Below in New York City. The two performances will each feature different performers and different songs.
Tony nominee Christiane Noll (Ragtime), Ryan Vona (Paramour), Caroline Bowman (Wicked), Jim Brochu (Zero Hour), and Bonnie Milligan (Kinky Boots) have joined the starry lineup for the concert, which is being produced and directed by Robert W. Schneider. The show will also feature previously announced stage stars Klea Blackhurst, Loni Ackerman, Jill Paice, Jim Walton, Amanda Green, Todd Buonopane, Kara Lindsay, Carolyn Mignini, and Rita Gardner (the original Girl in The Fantasticks), performing songs from the little-known shows written by the likes of Cy Coleman, Charles Strouse, Frank Loesser, Marvin Hamlisch, Carolyn Leigh, Richard Maltby Jr, David Shire, Barry Manilow, Bob Merrill, and Harold Rome.
Here is a complete list of the planned musicals to be unearthed (subject to change):
At the 7 PM Show
Richard Adler鈥檚 A Mother鈥檚 Kisses
Strouse & Charnin鈥檚 Annie 2: Miss Hannigan鈥檚 Revenge
Legrand & David鈥檚 Brainchild
Cy Coleman鈥檚 The Great Ostrovsky
Schmidt & Jones鈥� Grover鈥檚 Corners
Jacobson & Robert鈥檚 Hot September
Jack Herrick鈥檚 Lone Star Love
Maltby & Shire鈥檚 Love Match
Strouse & Birkenhead鈥檚 惭颈苍蝉办测鈥檚
Colby & Urbont鈥檚 Mrs. McThing
Hamlisch & Carnelia鈥檚 The Nutty Professor
Performers scheduled to appear at the 7 PM show include Vona, Brochu, Milligan, Ackerman (Cats), Blackhurst (Everything the Traffic Will Allow), Buonopane (Cinderella), Gardner (The Wedding Singer), Lindsay (Wicked), Mignini (Tintypes), Paice (Curtains), and Kevin Zak (Clinton: The Musical).
At the 9:30 PM Show
Cy Coleman鈥檚 13 Days to Broadway
Comden & Green鈥檚 Bonanza Bound
Harold Rome鈥檚 Gone With The Wind
Barry Manilow鈥檚 Harmony
Maltby & Shire鈥檚 How Do You Do, I Love You
Bob Merrill鈥檚 The Prince of Grand Street
Leslie Bricusse鈥檚 Say Hello to Harvey
Hamlisch & Leigh鈥檚 Smile
Dubey & Karr鈥檚 We Take The Town
Pockriss & Hackady鈥檚 Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Dempsey & Rowe鈥檚 The Witches of Eastwick
Performers scheduled to appear at the 9:30 PM show include Noll, Bowman, Green, Buonopane, Walton (Merrily We Roll Along), Mary Callanan (Bandstand), Michael Hajjar, Nic Rouleau (The Book of Mormon), Will Blum (The Book Of Mormon), George Salazar (The Lighting Thief), Neva Small (Henry, Sweet, Henry), Rebecca Spigelman (Hairspray), and Kevin David Thomas.
This will be the second edition of Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway; a similar show with different songs was performed at the cabaret this past spring.
Feinstein鈥檚/54 Below programming director Jennifer Ashley Tepper will co-host the evening with Schneider, introducing renditions and anecdotes from some of the shows鈥� original cast members and creators.
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