It’s showtime! “Rogers: The Musical” has premiered at Hollywood Land’s Hyperion Theater in Disney California Adventure. While it was performed in a preview yesterday for media and select D23 Gold Members, today was the debut for the general public. The new one-act musical is inspired by the fake Broadway show seen in “Hawkeye” on Disney+.
To see the show, guests can purchase the Premium Viewing Experience, join a virtual queue, or try for standby. The virtual queue is not required but recommended. The Premium Viewing Experience is $29 and has very limited space — it sold out within an hour of becoming available on opening day.
Watch our full video of “Rogers: The Musical” below and keep scrolling for photos.
Rogers: The Musical Video
‘Rogers: The Musical’ Photos
Audio plays, seemingly from a retro radio onstage, while guests take their seats. The audio includes a musical commercial for Elias & Co., a store in Disney California Adventure named after Walter Elias Disney and his father.
The radio station is KBVS for Buena Vista Street (K is assigned to commercial radio stations west of the Mississippi River).
A safety announcement 10 minutes before the show includes the sentence, “The stars are out tonight, amid the glitz and glitter of this bustling young movie town, and they’ve gathered right here at the Hyperion Theater, a beacon for the show business elite.” Parts of this line are lifted right from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror pre-show. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was previously part of Hollywood Land, not far from Hyperion Theater, but was re-done to become Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!, now part of Avengers Campus.
The show is hosted by the “monarchs of melody,” the Starkettes.
The show starts with a big opening number that introduces the man of the hour, Steve Rogers, and sets the stage for his story to come.
The Starkettes take on minor roles in the show, like nurses.
The billboards of New York City are full of Easter eggs, like Stan’s Heroes deli and World Exposition of Tomorrow.
The show eventually sees Steve in his old age, pulled right from the end of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” series on Disney+.
In honor of “Rogers: The Musical,” Disney California Adventure has a new guidemap. There is also a small collection of “Rogers”-branded merchandise. A “Rogers: The Musical” photo op is available by Hollywood Lounge.
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