Hollywood’s secret musicals

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The studios promoting Mean Girls, Wonka, and The Color Purple are hiding something from you. The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh explains why. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers with original music by Noam Hassenfeld, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something strange is happening in Hollywood. I'm not talking about that guy they got to host the Golden Globe.
0:07.0	Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago. I'm talking about the secret musicals.
0:12.0	What is that?
0:14.0	The Lord, it's the Queen Bee.
0:15.0	Regina George. Don't look her in the eye.
0:17.0	You could be really hot.
0:19.0	You change like everything.
0:21.0	A new Mean Girls movie comes out today.
0:23.9	It promises it is not your mother's Mean Girls,
0:26.8	which rude, but also what does that mean?
0:29.9	The trailer never tells you, but check out this footage
0:32.4	from a recent screening.
0:34.0	That audience groaning when not
0:41.0	Lindsay Loe and Katie Heron starts singing,
0:43.5	they're bummed because they didn't want a musical.
0:46.1	They didn't necessarily know they were getting a musical,
0:49.0	but they got a musical.
0:51.2	And it's not just Mean Girls. Why Hollywood is hiding its musicals.
0:56.0	Coming up on today, Explained.
0:58.0	Support for this show comes from Krakan.
1:03.0	Krypto is like the financial system, but different.
1:07.0	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,
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