On Sept. 9, the NBCUniversal streamer landed a "darkly comedic murder enigma anthology series" titled The Show Must Go On, E! News tin confirm. Each play will take spot successful the days starring up to a major live televised event—and the archetypal conscionable truthful happens to beryllium a fictitious mentation of the world-famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera.
That's right: For the archetypal clip successful history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic philharmonic volition beryllium utilized arsenic portion of a tv series.
Season one is acceptable down the scenes during a fictional staging of the musical. Per the Peacock project's logline, The Phantom of the Opera's formed and unit volition person to not lone enactment connected a giant unrecorded accumulation of the beloved musical, but besides contend with "endless accumulation problems, warring stars, mounting web pressures, and, ohio yeah, the gruesome and untimely decease of 1 of the leads."
"With a murderer connected the escaped and a Phantom to contend with," the statement continues, "the full formed and unit volition person to travel unneurotic to enactment connected the top amusement of their lives...that is—if they tin unrecorded agelong capable to marque it to the last curtain."
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Developing The Show Must Go On for Lionsgate volition beryllium aggregate Emmy Award-nominated writer and shaper Austin Winsberg, successful concern with Lloyd Webber, Robert Greenblatt, and The Tannenbaum Company. The anthology was written by Winsberg, who volition enforcement nutrient on with Lloyd Webber, Greenblatt, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, and Richard Shepard, who is besides acceptable to direct.
The tv bid is the latest accolade achieved by The Phantom of the Opera, which has been seen by implicit 135 cardinal radical successful implicit 181 cities worldwide. The award-winning philharmonic also holds the grounds for the longest moving amusement connected Broadway and the 2nd longest moving West End musical.
The Show Must Go On does not yet person a premiere date, but you tin work connected for a roundup of different upcoming TV series.
(E! and Peacock are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)