www.usatoday.com: Imagine if Glee met Friday Night Lights, and you'd have a TV show like Rise, NBC's latest attempt at musical drama.
Due March 13, the series stars Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) as an earnest high-school drama coach who recruits a reluctant football player to appear in the controversial school musical, Spring Awakening. If that sounds like Glee, you may recall that the Fox series' star, Lea Michele, appeared in the original 2006 Broadway cast of Awakening.
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The Idea of rise is very interesting but yet seems very overdone. As soon as I saw athlete going to be in the drama club, I immediately thought of high school musical. This isn’t a bad thing because who could hate high school musical, is just that this idea seems to be overdone. This article also compared this show to glee. While it stated that Rise will be more heartfelt it does have the same vibes as glee did. Hopefully this show will be actually original.
One thing that does excite me about this show is the fact that a prime time tv slot is going to be about theatre. I feel that it is so important for the world to see more about theatre and how important it is to students. In the past theatre tv shows haven’t not worked out but it takes time for an American audience to get behind something that is new! With all of the live musicals and this new tv show hopefully more people will end up getting the theater bug and hopefully will start to see more theatre and arts in there lives.
This seams like an interesting and intriguing idea. If I had cable I would probably give this show a chance for two reasons. This seams like an overdone thing. Like the article mentioned, Fox did this with Glee and NBC did a version of this with Smash. While Glee was a hit Smash was not, so it will be interesting how this new series Rise will deviate from both of these shows. The article stated that this show will be more character driven, that will be interesting to see on a tv show about high school and theater. I also would watch this show just because I love Auli'i Cravalho, and I am excited to see what she does as an on screen actor, not a voice actor like her incredible performance in Moana. The second reason I world watch this show is to see how a major network portrays theater.
I love musical shows so much. I've never watched a show that was about making a musical but I love Crazy Ex Girlfriend which is a musical tv show about a woman with a mental illness who can't accept a breakup she had many years before. This is exactly the type of show I would watch because I love to see things that remind me of my high school experience, where I was a musical theatre major. While I didn't exactly enjoy being a musical theatre major, I do think that the inner workings of putting up a musical are extremely interesting. The perspective of being an actor in a musical is so different from being a crew member and I think it'd be nice to be reminded of what it was like to be putting up a show that I wasn't really entirely confident in the outcome of. I hope to watch this show if I have time.
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