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Repo! The Genetic Opera
Why this pick
Its rock-opera form, stylised violence, outsized villains, and shamelessly camp melodrama make it a natural companion to Stage Fright’s horror-musical energy.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its cult-songbook, gleeful camp, horror iconography, and audience-facing theatricality are a clear ancestral match for Stage Fright’s outrageous musical slasher mode.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 2004, Broadway diva Kylie Swanson opened the musical ''The Haunting of the Opera'' (a reference to real-life musical ''The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)'') to a packed audience. However, that same night, she was murdered backstage by an unknown assailant wearing the mask of the play's villain, Opera Ghost. 10 years later in the present-day, Kylie's children Camilla and Buddy have grown up raised by Roger McCall, a former lover of Kylie's and the producer of a musical theater summer camp on the brink of bankruptcy. When Camilla hears that the camp will be producing a kabuki version of ''The Haunting of the Opera'', she decides that she will sneak into auditions one way or another. She manages to convince a camper overseeing the auditions, Joel Hopton, to let her in and Camilla easily impresses the stage director Artie and wins the lead role of Sofia - much to Buddy's dismay.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Allie MacDonald
Camilla Swanson
Douglas Smith
Buddy Swanson
Ephraim Ellis
Sam Brownstein
Melanie Leishman
Liz Silver
James McGowan
Victor Brady
Eli Batalion
Oleg Penderecki
Steffi DiDomenicantonio
Bethany
Adrianna Di Liello
Lithpy