The brand new show Drag! The Musical is heading to New York this fall!
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After the success of the pilot episode of Hazbin Hotel in 2019, Vivienne Medrano showed the potential that an adult animated musical series could offer. A potential that saw A24 joining into the animation space, leading to an eight episode season on Prime Video and a renewal for season 2. Joining Medrano on the project are songwriters Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg, who used multiple styles of music to give the series a more musical feeling than the pilot episode.
Hazbin Hotel follows Charlie Morningstar (Erika Henningsen), daughter of Lucifer and princess of Hell, who dreams of opening a hotel with the (likely impossible) goal of rehabilitating demons to stop Heaven from coming down and culling their population once a year. The Prime series takes place one week after the last extermination, when Charlie learns she has less time to prove her plan can work than she thought as Heaven is planning to return sooner. With the story and music so intrinsically tied together, Medrano, Haft and Underberg collaborated closely on every song to make sure each character’s voice was heard in the lyrics.
DEADLINE: Vivienne, you made the pilot for this in 2019, what was the process of turning that into a full series for Prime video?
VIVIENNE MEDRANO: Making the pilot took about two to three years, and that was a lot of learning. When it was out, it exploded in this huge way that I was not expecting and A24 came into the picture and they really, really liked it and had a lot of faith in it. They were a little new to the world of animation, so we were kind of in it together and it wasn’t until a little bit later that Amazon came in, kind of in a similar way where they were very passionate about it. They saw the potential in it and they
The brand new show Drag! The Musical is heading to New York this fall!
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