Rogers: The Musical Richard Harbaugh/Disneyland Resort
If you ever before intended to see the Avengers’ Captain America and also Nick Fury sing and also dance their method with a mini-musical regarding Cap’s life, well, it’s time to head to Disneyland.
Disney and also Marvel have actually collaborated for Rogers: The Musical, a half-hour performance at Disney California Adventure’s Hyperion Theater in Anaheim, Calif., that premiered on Friday (June 30).
The brand-new one-act program – which contains silly wit and also a variety of music designs – outgrew a quick series in an episode of the Disney+ collection Hawkeye in 2021. In the program, the title personality (an Avenger himself, played by Jeremy Renner) participates in a proving of Rogers: The Musical, and also the track “Save the City” is carried out by personalities playing Avengers. Both the music and also “Save the City” came to be follower faves, with the last creating simply over 1 million on-demand main streams in the U.S., according to Luminate.
Billboard obtained a preview at the brand-new manufacturing the day prior to its best, which was complied with by a panel conversation with the program’s imaginative group.
“We were like every fan,” claimed Dan Fields, exec imaginative supervisor, Disney Live Entertainment throughout the panel. “We saw [‘Save the City’] and said, ‘I want to see the rest of it! I want to see all of Rogers: The Musical!’ But then we realized, ‘Hey, we’re Disney Live Entertainment, we can do that!’ So that’s what we set out to do.”
Fans will certainly enjoy to recognize: “Save the City” shows up completely in the real-world Rogers: The Musical manufacturing, in addition to 7 various other music numbers.
Rogers: The Musical is set up to go through Aug. 31 at Disney California Adventure. It’s the initial program at the almost 2,000-seat Hyperion in greater than 3 years, given that the COVID-19 pandemic closed down its previous manufacturing, Frozen – Live at the Hyperion, on March 14, 2020. Nothing has actually been revealed by Disney if Rogers: The Musical will certainly be presented in various other Disney Parks or homes (such as Disney Cruise Line).
In Rogers: The Musical, we comply with Steve “Captain America” Rogers over 70-plus years – from his beginning as a scrawny soldier-turned-beefy superhero in the 1940s with his teaming with the remainder of the Avengers and also his long-simmering romance with Peggy Carter. The program’s publication was created by Hunter Bell, while Christopher Lennertz is the musical’s author, conductor and also arranger.
“[It] was really important to all of us, [show creator and director] Jordan [Peterson] and Hunter and I … to give everyone — both musical theater fans and superhero fans — something they would love about the music,” Lennertz claimed. “And the fact that we get to span 70 years and do everything from ‘40s-style big band jazz to a singer/songwriter style pop tune and obviously the Nick Fury patter song meets ‘Uptown Funk’ — it’s the idea of giving everyone something that they can grab onto and really feel like it’s part of their story too.”
The Nick Fury line of gab track Lennertz calls out is the song “What You Missed,” in which Fury discusses – with track and also dancing – to a just-awakened Rogers (that has actually been asleep for 70 years yet hasn’t aged) what’s taken place over the last 7 years.
Dave Bushore, vice head of state of franchise business imaginative and also advertising, Marvel Studios, remembered throughout the panel a remarkable minute when he and also Fields provided an initial variation of Rogers: The Musical to Kevin Feige, head of state of Marvel Studios.
Bushore claimed, “We’re sitting in Kevin’s office, me and Dan…” Fields: “And Kevin says, ‘Nick Fury sings? That should be on the billboard!’ He said, ‘Embrace that, lean into that!’”
Rogers: The Musical Sean Teegarden/Disneyland Resort
In enhancement to the program’s tracks, theatergoers will certainly be dealt with to pre-show songs piped in from an onstage radio. It plays period-appropriate snazzy songs, consisting of a tune that recommendations “Elias & Co.,” a shop inside Disney California Adventure, called after Walt Disney’s center name, Elias. There’s no word on if any one of the songs from the program (consisting of the pre-show choices) will certainly be launched readily or with streaming solutions.
With Rogers: The Musical bringing a performance back to the Hyperion after greater than 3 years, it’s one more method site visitors to the park – frequently young followers – will certainly reach experience online musical comedy, maybe for the very first time.
“For a lot of people who come to our parks, they may not have had a lot of experience coming to theater — to traditional theater,” claimed Fields. “But here’s an opportunity to combine a love of theater with a love of superheroes right here in a theme park. This is a real show for families, whether you already knew the story of Steve Rogers or not. So hopefully everyone’s found something to enjoy in the show.”
