Nicholas & Alexandra?

is this ever going to happen?
I know there is the video of Autumn Hurlbert singing Love Will Stay from it and thats all I have heard from it but it leaves me very intrigued... is this ever going to happen? and what about vote!?

can't wait!!! :)
any news if she will do the reading? god, i hope so

Nicholas and Alexandra? As in Tsar Nicholas II and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. As a musical? Dreadful.

yeah...sometimes it still amazes me how quick people are to dismiss something on these boards.... haven't we learned from musicals like Sweeney Todd, etc that almost anything, executed well, can make a great musical?

Anyhow, She performed this song as well as one other from the show, a trio at the concert they had. I'm hoping it will end up online as well, because it was (while not free of mistakes either :) pretty awesome too!

omg thanks so much lachuisafan!
I wish they put up all of "Love Will Stay"
its so GORGEOUS now with the cello/violin/viola, whatever it is lol
omg, I love this, and the new music sounds wonderful

ok, how do you know its going to be messy?

have you even heard the songs?

I wouldn't call this 'dreadful', but I would say that N+A are not really good musical theatre characters nor is their story one for a musical.

They and their lives and their setting is that of grand opera. A musical would trivialize their tragedy. An opera would set their fall to scale.

Whoever is writing this work needs to rethink their piece.

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I agree with ismellatony.

Subject matter alone is not the make or break of a show. My understanding (from both the video and other comments I've heard about the concert where the songs were performed) is that they're taking some historical license and going very personal with it.

Also, an earlier version of this show was workshopped with Stuart Ostrow a few years ago, and he thought it had potential, so I'm sure the creators are addressing the issues with the content.

Sincere music never trivializes anything.