JC Chasez is able to delve into the world of musical theater. The *NSYNC celebrity revealed completely by way of Billboard on Sunday (Sept. 8) that he’s teaming up with Golden Globe-winning songwriter and composer Jimmy Harry for a musical theater idea album referred to as Taking part in With Fireplace. The 16-track venture is impressed by Mary Shelly’s seminal 1818 novel, Frankenstein, and blends digital pop with classical music from the romantic period to create a recent twist on a centuries-old story.
The reimagining of the traditional story got here collectively when Harry confirmed Chavez a theatrical adaptation of the story by his late mom, playwright Barbara Discipline. Chasez was instantly captivated by the story, and the duo labored collectively to create an album that represents a dialog between a dying Frankenstein and his creation, The Creature, on the grave of Frankenstein’s spouse, Elizabeth. By means of musical dialog and flashbacks, “the 2 develop to grasp one another and the explanations for his or her actions that brutally affected one another’s lives. They finally discover sympathy, love, and forgiveness for one another,” per a press launch.
Along with writing the venture, Chasez additionally lends his vocals to plenty of tracks on Taking part in With Fireplace, alongside singers Cardamon Rozzi and Lily Elise. The album marks his first main musical venture since his 2004 solo album, Schizophrenic.
“There are similarities [between writing a pop hit and musical theater songs] and there are some some very huge variations,” the star beforehand instructed Billboard of his curiosity in musical theater. “While you’re writing a single for one thing, you’re simply seeking to write about what you’re feeling within the second. While you’re engaged on a musical, there’s at all times a much bigger image and the story is at all times the driving power.”
He added, “It’s type of like the very last thing that I haven’t actually dabbled in. I began in tv, then I moved into music and I made a few movies. Now, it looks like that is the final untapped factor. It’s good to expertise all sides of it.”
Taking part in With Fireplace is out by way of Middle Stage Data on Oct. 25. See the complete observe listing under.
- “This Is How the World Ends”
- “How Do You Sleep”
- “You Used to Contact Me”
- “Damaged”
- “That is the Starting”
- “One Over R Squared Half 1”
- “I Discovered Loss of life on the College”
- “One Over R Squared Half 2”
- “The Animation”
- “Father”
- “No One Loves No One”
- “It’s Only a Dream”
- “Construct Me Somebody to Love”
- “Taking part in With Fireplace”
- “The Loss of life of the Brides”
- “Don’t Go”
