Today we are looking at the highlights of the premiere episodes of ABC's fresh new musical comedy series GALAVANT.
Joust Between Us A generous portion of THE PRINCESS BRIDE, a hearty helping of ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS, a serving or two of TANGLED and a dash of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, all as viewed through the wildly popular contemporary medieval revival prism of GAME OF THRONES and THE LORD OF THE RINGS franchise, the wacky and winsome GALAVANT is an unabashedly idiosyncratic series that is nearly impossible to accurately categorize. A meta mash-up of genres, styles and tone perfectly befitting of the meta age in which we live today, GALAVANT largely represents the next step in episodic musical entertainment, arriving the very same week as the premiere episode of the final season of the innovative game-changer that started it all, GLEE. Of course, in the interim since GLEE's debut we have endured the wildly uneven two seasons of NBC's Broadway-set musical dramedy series SMASH as well as two major live network musicals thanks to NBC's presentations of THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE! in 2013 and PETER PAN LIVE! last year, not to mention the many movie musicals released recently - ROCK OF AGES and JERSEY BOYS on the flop side, with LES MISERABLES and the current INTO THE WOODS box office champs, along with respectable business for the new ANNIE reboot, too. Now, with GALAVANT, Disney's TV network ABC joins the musical fold in full force, employing the multi-Academy Award-winning composer responsible for many of their 1980s, 1990s and post-millennial hits to shepherd it - the one and only Alan Menken. Along with creator Dan Fogelman, of ABC's THE NEIGHBORS - which also showcased a special musical episode during its run that utilized the seemingly endlessly inventive melodic genius of Menken - Menken has joined with witty and reliably off-the-wall lyricist Glenn Slater to ostensibly forge an entire new genre with GALAVANT: the medieval meta musical comedy series.
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