'The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical' Creators Nominated For Their First Ever Grammy
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🗓️ 1 April 2022
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They were inspired by Season 1 of Netflix's series Bridgerton, and used that inspiration to write a full musical theater album. They didn't intend to write a full album, but as they workshopped the songs on social media, fans everywhere watched as Barlow & Bear wrote the songs live — offering followers a front row seat to the music making process.
This weekend at the 64th annual Grammy Awards, Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow will be in the audience waiting to hear if their album, The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, wins in the category of Best Musical Theater Album.
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| 0:00.0 | You know when a new show comes out and you watch an episode just to see if you like it? |
| 0:04.6 | And the next thing you know, you haven't moved for four hours because you can't stop watching it. |
| 0:12.2 | Well, that was pretty much the binge-watching experience for Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear |
| 0:17.2 | when they saw the Netflix series Bridgerton. |
| 0:19.8 | But their obsession with this show did not end when the first season did. |
| 0:24.0 | I rewatched like the opening sequence where you're being introduced to all the characters, |
| 0:28.5 | and I was like, I can see this opening number on stage. |
| 0:31.8 | So musical theater. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | Like when we were writing the opening number, we watched that opening scene so many times. |
| 0:38.4 | It's theatrical. It's so theatrical. |
| 0:40.8 | They go by Barlow and Bear as a musical duo, and when they watched Bridgerton, |
| 0:44.9 | they just started playing around with that idea. |
| 0:48.0 | What if this was a musical? |
| 0:50.8 | Okay, but what if Bridgerton was a musical? |
| 0:52.8 | What's it beautiful? |
| 0:56.0 | So we had like a moment we wanted to write about in the show. |
| 0:59.6 | So we kind of watched that moment, and then we were sort of playing around with different ideas. |
| 1:04.7 | And I think you came up with the chord progression. |
| 1:07.7 | They workshopped ideas for songs and lyrics and melody all along while posting about it on social media. |
| 1:14.7 | I guess I have to be a lady. |
| 1:17.8 | Smiling and waving, wants to Leo Baying. |
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