Audiences adore singing cats, Founding Fathers and wicked witches — as long as you don't build a TV series around them. Yes, there have been successful musical-comedy series. But for every "Glee" success there are seven "Cop Rock" flops.
And yet, we keep getting song-and-dance acts like "Up Here," now streaming on Hulu, and Apple TV's' "Schmigadoon!," which kicked off its second season Wednesday.
The attempts keep coming, in large part because Broadway's best are eager to make it big in the wider, more lucrative world of television. That's likely the motive for "Dear Evan Hansen" creator Steven Levenson and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the team behind the "Frozen" songs. Given their past work, it's no surprise that their collaboration, "Up Here," revolves around characters trying to break out of funks.
