Marvel’s fake Captain America musical from Hawkeye is headed to a real stage
Remember when Mel Brooks’ 1967 movie The Producers was re-imagined as a Broadway musical that swept the Tonys, and because it was so popular, the Broadway version was eventually made into a different film version? Or when Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse featured a fake trailer for a nonexistent Danny Trejo movie called Machete, which was eventually turned into a real movie series? Now we’re getting the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of that evolution. Rogers: The Musical — a fictional, over-the-top cheesy Broadway musical Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) walks out on in his Disney Plus series Hawkeye — is headed to a real stage.
The Disney Parks account on TikTok shared a video on Thursday with a short teaser for the real-life 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 Rogers in summer 2023. The video shows a woman dressed like Steve Rogers’ love interest Peggy Carter, from the Marvel series Agent Carter, looking at a playbill for the show and walking toward a theater.
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It’s a little ironic that Disney is doing a straight version of the show, given how it’s depicted in Hawkeye as a corny, artificial experience that actively depresses Hawkeye. 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. That said, Disney parks specialize in fakey, feel-good experiences. And the song from that musical
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