This is Planet Money from NPR.

Hello, I'm Amanda Arohnchik.

I am Kenny Malone.

Kenny, it is a big day.

Biggest day, yes.

Biggest day!

Because we at Planet Money have been hard at work,

Lighting the Lights, Setting the Stage,

Getting Ready To Share With You, Audience,

Planet Money's first original production of

Microface the musical. Now if you subscribe to Planet Money Plus you got a chance to hear this a few weeks ago

And now we are sharing it with everybody. Yes, this is very exciting

I think we need to take a few minutes to like set up the musical for people, right? Yeah, it is it is complicated musical

So this will take a second. Okay, so this musical grew out of the Planet Money project

We buy is superhero and we have done a bunch of episodes about the superhero

We will link to them in our episode notes and basically this was a project to buy and monetize a superhero

In order to understand the high stakes economic world of superhero intellectual property

Yeah, because like of course superhero

IP

Fools movies and merchandise and theme parks. It is like it's huge and it's interesting

And we wanted to understand it from from the inside and out and so to do that

We actually first went out and tried to buy a superhero off of Marvel comics

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