The MCU’s fake Broadway show Rogers: The Musical is headed to a stage

Remember when Mel Brooks’ 1967 movie ProducersIt was later reimagined on Broadway as a Broadway musical. The Broadway production was so successful that it was made into another film. Or when Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s GrindhouseA fake trailer was used to promote a movie by Danny Trejo that is not real. MacheteThe movie was made into a film series. Now we’re getting the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of that evolution. Rogers: The Musical — His Disney Plus series features a fictionalized, cheesy Broadway show called Hawkeye by Jeremy Renner Hawkeye — is headed to a real stage.

TikTok’s Disney Parks account shared a Thursday video with a teaser of the real-life Disney Parks experience. Rogers The Musical The account added in a comment that Disney’s California Adventure Park will be premiering a “short one-act musical” version of RogersIn summer 2023. The video shows a woman dressed like Steve Rogers’ love interest Peggy Carter, from the Marvel series Agent CarterA playbill is displayed and the actor walks toward a theater.

It’s a little ironic that Disney is doing a straight version of the show, given how it’s depicted in Hawkeye Hawkeye finds it a depressing, corny and artificial experience. As someone who lived out the events he’s seeing onstage, he clearly feels that the repackaged version is a fake, feel-good experience that doesn’t reflect any of the trauma he’s experienced as an Avenger. Disney parks are known for creating fake, positive experiences. We also see the musical song in that movie. HawkeyeBroadway musical lovers will find this a true earworm. “Save The City,” written by Broadway vets Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can), is meant to get people singing along, and maybe Disney execs felt like they shouldn’t waste it as a throwaway joke in one episode of a TV show.

Rhys Thomas directed the production. Hawkeye episode built around the Broadway musical, told Polygon in a Nov. 2021 interview that he came up with the idea for the musical when he was looking for something to “annoy” Hawkeye, and that the consciously silly tone of Rogers, The Musical It was an interesting balancing act.

“You realize, like, oh, we’re making an MCU musical The MCU” Thomas said. “So how good is it? Is it really that bad? It should be ridiculous. So finding that line, which I feel like is a line that I find myself constantly trying to walk: you’ve got to take it seriously, but just not seriously enough.”

We’ll have to wait to see how seriously Disney Parks takes the idea, and whether it improves on the original musical’s silly costumes — particularly for Hulk, who’s more or less a guy in an inflatable suit and green facepaint. More MCU Broadway ballsads are probably a positive thing.