We're Back—Back with a Vengeance!
For our 40th musical, we thought we'd try something a little different. For one night only (plus a livestream, available for up to 72 hours after) we presented our first live performance in two years, featuring some of our most spectacular arrangements of the past, paired with a new, bewildering, zany plot.
We adopted a radio-play format, holding binders to ensure perfection during the difficult songs, and wore masks to keep everyone super-safe (so we set it in the future!)
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The plot followed a group of not-quite-colonists (we were invited!) on a space trip to Nereid, a moon of Neptune. We were beset by various space pirates, but eventually arrived safe and sound, of course! (Well, most of us did).
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Highlights included the gorgeous Sister Act, the stirring Who I'd Be, just about anything the Space Ogres did, and our poor co-pilot's failed attempts to turn everything into a song cue.
Back in 1922, the Newark, New Jersey radio station WJZ used to air entire Broadway musical comedies, complete with their original casts.