Wildhorn to score CHIMNEY TOWN musical adaptation

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 1:39pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Frank-Wildhorn-to-Pen-Original-Score-for-Akihiro-Nishinos-CHIMNEY-TOWN-THE-MUSICAL-20251030

Composer Frank Wildhorn has joined the creative team of Chimney Town the Musical, the theatrical adaptation of Poupelle of Chimney Town, the book-turned-anime film from Akihiro Nishino. Details regarding an upcoming full-scale production of the show, with score by Wildhorn, will be revealed shortly. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 2:00pm

Wildhorn's post-comeback comeback being almost exclusively anime adaptations fascinates me.

[hyangsoo]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 2:28pm

I'm assuming this will be in English and targeting an English language market first? Does anyone have any details?

 

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 2:29pm

Sure, why the hell not?

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 4:08pm

hyangsoo said: "I'm assuming this will be in English and targeting an English language market first? Does anyone have any details?

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His last two anime musicals were written and workshopped in English, then translated to Japanese and premiered overseas. 

[Fan123]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 4:11pm

A version of this show has been around for a few years already. They even officially released a full pro-shot for free online, with English subtitles, of the older version (which I think has songs by Japanese composer/s, not by Wildhorn): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYPy4vh3_dQ . (Not sure if that will be taken down eventually.)

According to the website at https://musical.chimney.town/, when put through Google Translate, "From the beginning, the aim of this work was to be performed around the world, starting with Broadway in New York, and a company has now been established in New York, where they are continuing to update the work and work with local creators as they work towards a Broadway performance."

Incidentally, I think the story has a Halloween theme, which is timely. Here's a song from the old version on that theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCjYh2bNfw .

[hyangsoo]

Posted: 10/31/25 at 9:45am

Fan123 said: "A version of this show has been around for a few years already. They even officially released a full pro-shot for free online, with English subtitles, of the older version (which I think hassongs by Japanese composer/s, not by Wildhorn):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYPy4vh3_dQ. (Not sure if that will be taken down eventually.)

According to the website athttps://musical.chimney.town/,when put through Google Translate, "From the beginning, the aim of this work was to be performed around the world, starting with Broadway in New York, and a company has now been established in New York, where they are continuing to update the work and work with local creators as they work towards a Broadway performance."

Incidentally, I think the story has a Halloween theme, which is timely. Here's a song from the old version on that theme:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCjYh2bNfw."

Thank you for the info!

[James885]

Posted: 10/31/25 at 11:12am

Loved Wildhorn’s score for Death Note, so am interested to see how how this turns out.

Interesting that he’s has been doing a lot of anime adaptations lately. However it doesn’t seem like anime is an area a lot of American theater writers are flocking to, despite its exploding popularity in the US. Broadway always seems to be a decade or two behind pop culture trends.

So in that light, it kinda makes sense for him to carve out a niche for himself since no other prominent theater composers / writers are in that space now.

Updated On: 10/31/25 at 11:12 AM