Broadway Puzzler #115

Posted: 4/3/05 at 5:35pm

This TV heartthrob received top billing in his second choice Broadway musical after he weathered the collapse of his first choice original musical, which was to star him, two weeks before rehearsals of his second choice were to begin.

Name the TV star.

Name his "2nd choice" musical.

Name his "first choice" original musical.

What was the name of his TV show?

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 5:38pm

This is all just a quess...

Donny Osmond
Joseph
Little Johnny Jones
The Osmonds
?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:41pm

MEF,

It is not Donny Osmond.

There is a clue in the puzzler.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:44pm

Well, I'm stumped! But I've never really been good at these things.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:46pm

Maybe Dean Jones? I don't know...

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:48pm

could it be the insanely talented david hasselhoff in jekyll and hyde? i hope not!

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 3:54am

Robert Horton
"110 in the Shade"
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
"Wagon Train"

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 3:56am

I've never even heard of him...

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:11am

WAY before your time...

But that may not be the right answer.

Posted: 4/4/05 at 9:15am

Wildcat, you're one smart cat! Not 100%, but enough to jump to the top.

Robert Horton, indeed. The male beefcake of "Wagon Train."

"Wagon Train" was the hit TV show which was broadcst from about 1957 to 1962. Wagon Train also starred Ward Bond, who can be seen as the interrogating Union officer in the film GONE WITH THE WIND, in the scene where the Union soldiers come to Melanie's home on the evening Scarlett was attached while driving through Shantytown.

Robert Horton "weathered" the collapse of I PICKED A DAISY (the Lerner-Richard Rodgers precurser to ON A CLEAR DAY) and joined 110 whose producing team had also wanted him for the lead.

110 IN THE SHADE is the Jones-Schmidt musical version of the play THE RAINMAKER, which was filmed (pre-musical) with Katherine Hepburn, and Burt Lancaster.

110 has a greatly underappreciated score. Give it listen, if yuou don't know it.

Great job, Wildcat!


Updated On: 4/4/05 at 09:15 AM

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:29pm

And who was going to play opposite Horton in I PICKED A DAISY, Jose'?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:51pm

BTW, what OTHER musical were Rodgers and Lerner going to colloborate on?

What happened to THAT project?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:52pm

And while we're at it--whose idea was it to form the Rodgers/Lerner colloborating team in the first place?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:53pm

And WHICH artist ultimately dissolved the colloboration?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 7:46pm

Jose', what is the connection between the original cast of 110 IN THE SHADE and the original cast of CAMELOT?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 7:55pm

What was the FIRST name of the Captain that Word Bond played in GWTW?

[Mamie]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 8:15pm

I believe that last one was "Tom".

Oh - I had such a crush on Robert Horton when I was a kid! There was a contest on the back of a popular cereal box that had a picture of him and Ward Bond from "Wagon Train". You had to write (in one paragraph) why you wanted to appear on Wagon Train. If you won, they would fly you and your family out to Hollywood and you'd get to be an extra on the set. I never wanted anything so much in my life! Of course, I didn't win but my dad took me to see Robert Horton when he made a personal appearance in town. I became totally tongue-tied and couldn't even say 'hello'.