New present "The Final Match: A Professional Wrestling Rock Musical" guarantees to mix musical theater and wrestling like by no means seen earlier than.
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This theatrical sport now has an authentic soundtrack.
A brand new present known as “The Final Match: A Professional Wrestling Rock Musical” combines raucous fight with extra conventional theater for a wild “hybrid,” producer Jeremiah James instructed The Put up.
“The present is a never-before tried, absolutely immersive and interactive” efficiency, he mentioned, and options stars of each the wrestling and musical theater worlds, together with Ramin Karimloo, who at present performs Nick Arnstein in Broadway’s “Humorous Lady” revival, and former WWE wrestler Matt Cardona. “The Final Match” made its two-show, sold-out debut in New Jersey in September and is now returning to Jersey Metropolis’s White Eagle Corridor for 2 performances — one at 2:30 p.m., the opposite at 7:30 p.m. — on Nov. 14.
“The present was such successful in September that we had been invited again,” mentioned James.
Per its title, the genre-bending efficiency tells the story of 1 wrestler’s last match, an epic finish to an extended profession that entails one last evening of mayhem earlier than retirement. Tracks from the eight-song authentic rating, out there for streaming on Spotify, embrace a dramatic tune known as “Ballet With Tooth” and the penultimate quantity, “The Present Should Go On” (adopted by “When It All Falls Down”).
Nonetheless, viewers members mustn't count on a traditional theater expertise, James warned: His creation is exclusive and under no circumstances making an attempt to rival Broadway.
“This can be a professional wrestling occasion that occurs to be a musical,” he clarified. “It would by no means be introduced in a traditional Broadway-style theater. It’s a wrestling present.”
Most of the wrestlers could also be actors, however the wrestling is actual, not staged, he emphasised. The web site notes that the manufacturing will flip “any venue into an precise wrestling enviornment.”
Tickets can be found by way of the present’s web site and value $30 per particular person or $40 for VIP standing. “The Final Match: A Professional Wrestling Rock Musical” is introduced at the side of the nonprofit Jersey Metropolis Theater Middle.
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