Wait in the Wings

Beetlejuice the Musical seemed like a simple enough concept in theory. Once it began its journey towards Broadway, however, things got...complicated. Wait in the Wings is back in a big way by diving into the hectic history of Beetlejuice the Musical.

Sharpen your chainsaws for the Bloody Adventure of Evil Dead the Musical. Regarded as one of the goriest film series ever created, Evil Dead would make its bold jump to Off-Broadway in 2006. With over-the-top musical numbers, a ton of alcohol and a splatter zone where audiences could get doused with blood, how couldn't it be a good time? But the question is... how could this have ever happened?

All aboard! As we continue forward on our journey of theater history, today we'll be making a stop to look into the painful spectacle of Starlight Express. Fresh off the success of Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber would follow it up with a musical about anamorphic trains. What could go wrong?

Matilda the Musical could have been a flop. With a director who had yet to prove himself in the relm of musicals, a playwright who had never written a script for one, and an Australian comedian, the odds were stacked against the show from the beginning...or were they? Learn more about the history of Matilda The Musical with this in depth documentary!

This is the story of The Broadway Massacre of Legs Diamond (WitWS2E5). The landscape of Broadway was changing in the late 1980's. The way of traditional glitz, glamour and light-hearted kicklines was on the way out, and the dramatic, dark, spectacle of the mega-musical was proving to be king. Legs Diamond on Broadway would solidify this as the rough, 1920's gangster would trade Tommy Guns for footlights in a Broadway production that was doomed from the start.

Is Fame gonna live forever? In this episode of Wait in the Wings we find ourselves in the crime ridden New York City that's on the brink of a 1980's revolution that would be sparked by a new variation of the teen musical genre.

It's all been leading to this. Carrie the Musical is known as the flop to end all flops. Lasting only five performance, the mystery and lore surrounding the Broadway production of Carrie has kept it in the minds of theater enthusiasts for the past 30 years. In this season finale of WitW, the true story is finally unveiled.