Loren Bouchard’s new series, “Central Park,” takes the musical moments that fans know and love from “Bob’s Burgers” and supersizes them, turning the show into a true musical series that fully leverages the talents of its stacked cast of theater veterans. But for Bouchard and co-creator Josh Gad, that was no simple undertaking.
“I said I wanted to do a show set in Central Park, and I wanted it to be a huge musical event series, thinking Loren was going to throw me out of his office going, ‘Please, somebody call security on this ‘Bob’s Burgers’ fanboy,” Gad told TheWrap. “Much to my surprise, he said ‘yes.'”
Casting started immediately, with calls going out to friends and colleagues who might be a good fit. “If we’re going to do a musical, we need to assemble the Avengers of musical theater,” Gad said.
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“I said I wanted to do a show set in Central Park, and I wanted it to be a huge musical event series, thinking Loren was going to throw me out of his office going, ‘Please, somebody call security on this ‘Bob’s Burgers’ fanboy,” Gad told TheWrap. “Much to my surprise, he said ‘yes.'”
Casting started immediately, with calls going out to friends and colleagues who might be a good fit. “If we’re going to do a musical, we need to assemble the Avengers of musical theater,” Gad said.
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- 5/31/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
The songwriting credits for the new Apple TV Plus animated series “Central Park” include a veritable who’s who of American female singer-songwriters stepping out of tune-land and into toon-land as guest writers, with Sara Bareilles, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Cyndi Lauper and Meghan Trainor among those represented.
None of their voices will be heard on the show— that’s left to a voice cast that includes executive producer Josh Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs and Stanley Tucci — but the list of talent the show attracted just as songwriters is bound to draw pop fans’ interest.
Other top-rank names contributing to the songwriting come from the worlds of theater, film and TV composing, including Alan Menken and Tony nominee Glenn Slater. The bulk of the songs, however, comes from the show’s core writers, Kate Anderson & Elyssa Samsel (“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”) and...
None of their voices will be heard on the show— that’s left to a voice cast that includes executive producer Josh Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs and Stanley Tucci — but the list of talent the show attracted just as songwriters is bound to draw pop fans’ interest.
Other top-rank names contributing to the songwriting come from the worlds of theater, film and TV composing, including Alan Menken and Tony nominee Glenn Slater. The bulk of the songs, however, comes from the show’s core writers, Kate Anderson & Elyssa Samsel (“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”) and...
- 5/29/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
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