When he pitched me the idea to do a murder mystery against a live musical backdrop, I thought it was perfect for me,” Greenblatt said.” So I reached out to Andrew Lloyd Webber to see if he would let us use Phantom of the Opera, which has never been done before. “Austin and I have a connection with musicals. Greenblatt also saw and loved the Broadway show First Date with Zachary Levi, whose book Winsberg wrote, and was a big fan of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Greenblatt has history with Winsberg who wrote NBC’s The Sound Of Music Live! adaptation starring Carrie Underwood, which had the highest viewership of all the live musicals on the broadcast networks. brought the idea to Greenblatt after he joined the Lionsgate fold last year when he launched his The Green Room production company with a first-look deal at the indie studio.
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The idea for The Show Must Go On came from Winsberg who has been working together with the Tannenbaums under their deals at Lionsgate TV, which has yielded two series to date, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, which had a two-season run on NBC (with a holiday movie finale on Roku) and Acapulco on Apple TV+. As a producer, Greenblatt did Annie Live! on the network last season. During his stint as Chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Television from 2011-18, Greenblatt, a Tony winner and long-time theater producer and investor, brought live musicals to the network with The Sound of Music Live!, The Wiz Live!, Hairspray Live!, Peter Pan Live!, the Emmy-winning Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!, which Lloyd Weber executive produced. This marks a return to NBCU for Greenblatt as well as the Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist team. It holds the record for the longest-running show on Broadway and the second longest-running West End musical. The Phantom of the Opera has been seen by more than 135 million people, in over 181 cities, worldwide and has earned more than 70 major theatre awards. And we hear that Lloyd Webber may even be part of the cast. While Phantom of the Opera will not be performed in its entirety as the season will follow the musical coming together in the background, many of its famous scenes and hits beloved by theater fans the world over, including “The Music of the Night”, will be featured on the show, sources tell Deadline. Winsberg will executive produce along with Lloyd Webber, Greenblatt via his The Green Room banner, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum of The Tannenbaum Co, and Shepard, who is also set to direct. With a murderer on the loose, and a Phantom to contend with, the whole cast and crew will have to come together to put on the greatest show of their lives… that is – if they can live long enough to make it to the final curtain… Season 1 is set behind the scenes during the making of a fictitious version of Lloyd Webber’s worldwide mega-hit: The Phantom of The Opera Live! As if putting on a giant, live, beloved musical isn’t enough of a challenge, imagine how hard it will be with endless production problems, warring stars, mounting network pressures, and, oh yeah, the gruesome and untimely death of one of the leads. Whether you can give £1 or £10, you’d be making a huge difference to our small team.Antonio Banderas, Andrew Lloyd Webber To Bring Top Musicals And Theatre Shows To Spanish-Speaking World If you’ve enjoyed reading our site, we’d really appreciate it if you could donate to The Indiependent. This includes our ‘Writer of the Month’ awards, where we recognise the amazing work produced by our contributor team. We’re trying to raise £200 a month to help cover our operational costs. Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday 4 May. “Although many of our brilliant original creative colleagues including, Hal Prince, Maria Björnson and Gillian Lynne are sadly no longer with us, their work lives on inspiring our new creative team to stage the Phantom afresh, as if it was a brand new production.” On the new production, producer Cameron Mackintosh said “putting the new version of the original Phantom production back into its perfect home Her Majesty’s Theatre, 35 years after its premiere, is an unexpected thrill. Orchestrations will be by David Cullen and Lloyd Webber, with musical supervision from Simon Lee and production design by Maria Björnson. The cast also includes Saori Oda, Matt Harrop, and Adam Linstead. Louis is Killian Donnelly as the Phantom and Rhys Whitfield as Raoul.