While you wait for “Wednesday” to premiere on Netflix on November 23, 2022, a brand new featurette video from Netflix today previews the upcoming Tim Burton series.īelow you can take a deep dive into Nevermore Academy, Wednesday Addams’ new boarding school created just for outcasts. I pitched him the idea and he loved it and on got on board.” 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. “The Show Must Go On” comes courtesy of Lionsgate Television and Universal Television. 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… if they can live long enough to make it to the final curtain.”Īustin Winsberg will executive produce along with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Greenblatt via his The Green Room banner, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum of The Tannenbaum Co, and Richard Shepard, who is set to direct. “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. 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! Each season would take place in the days leading up to a big, live, televised event and would tackle a new murder with a refreshed cast. “ The Show Must Go On is a darkly comedic murder mystery anthology series.

What does that mean, exactly? Deadline details…

Announced by Deadline this afternoon, Peacock is developing a murder-mystery series from Austin Winsberg (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) titled “ The Show Must Go On,” described in their report as “an hourlong murder mystery anthology, which would mark the first time Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera musical is used as part of a TV series.”

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