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#1

Broadway Puzzler #115

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?

#2

re: Broadway Puzzler #115

This is all just a quess...

Donny Osmond
Joseph
Little Johnny Jones
The Osmonds
?
#3

re: Broadway Puzzler #115

MEF,

It is not Donny Osmond.

There is a clue in the puzzler.

#4

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Well, I'm stumped! But I've never really been good at these things.
#5

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Maybe Dean Jones? I don't know...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#6

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could it be the insanely talented david hasselhoff in jekyll and hyde? i hope not!
#7

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Robert Horton
"110 in the Shade"
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
"Wagon Train"
#8

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I've never even heard of him...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#9

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WAY before your time...

But that may not be the right answer.
#10

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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

#11

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And who was going to play opposite Horton in I PICKED A DAISY, Jose'?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#12

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

What happened to THAT project?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#13

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And while we're at it--whose idea was it to form the Rodgers/Lerner colloborating team in the first place?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#14

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And WHICH artist ultimately dissolved the colloboration?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#15

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Jose', what is the connection between the original cast of 110 IN THE SHADE and the original cast of CAMELOT?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#16

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What was the FIRST name of the Captain that Word Bond played in GWTW?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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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'.


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