Yaoi musical
Far-flung future based on Poe
That was really weird.
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So yeaaaaaah...that was a weird musical. Having never read The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Alan Poe, upon which this musical of the same name is based, I had no idea what to expect going in.
Nor was I familiar with the anime sub-genre, Yaoi, which is "a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on homoerotic romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, aimed at a female audience and usually created by female authors."
The story was fairly interesting, but it got a little cheesy/melodramatic for my taste at points, and some of the songs were stylistically counter to the rest of the show. That said, I really enjoyed the score, most of the songs, and would be interested to see this again at some point after it's been workshopped some more and trimmed down a bit.
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