8/3/2023 0 Comments Encore 5 full![]() ![]() ![]() You might remember Encore! premiered in late 2017 as a barely promoted ABC special, a proof-of-concept reuniting the cast of a 1997 West Covina high school production of Into the Woods. And then at the end? They do a musical! And maybe it’s astonishingly good and maybe it’s excruciatingly bad and it hardly matters. For some, there’s the added weight of seeing the long-estranged best friend or long-forgotten mentor or laying eyes on the long-term ex who broke their heart. For some, there’s a chance to revisit a dream they set aside for work, family and kids. For some, there’s the opportunity for redemption, the chance to stop having that nightmare where you forget your entrance or skip a verse, leaving the orchestra confused. For many of these now-adults, it’s an opportunity to revisit a thing that they loved, a peak moment from a complicated youth. The play, or in this case the musical, is the thing. The hook: Producers reunite grown-ups and give them five days to restage the musicals they did in high school years or decades earlier. ![]()
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