Fairytales pending: the fringe musicals hoping to live happily ever after
Edinburgh has given festival audiences a look at two long awaited musicals – Bliss and Disenchanted! – with both aiming to now scale up their spectacle The Edinburgh fringe is mostly where new work is forged but that’s not the full picture.
Amid all the hot-off-the-press shows are a number of familiar titles that have been around for years yet are only making their professional UK debut now.
That’s the case with two fairytale musical productions hoping for a longer life whose festival run is a chance to engineer that happily ever after.
Bliss, co-created by Tyler Beattie and Emma Lively , won a new play award in the US in 2019 and had its world premiere in Seattle the year after.
A handful of its songs were released in 2022.
Now developed into what is billed as “the biggest new musical of the Edinburgh fringe”, it has a cast of 17 which exceeds regular fringe proportions – as does the running time (80 minutes rather than the standard hour).
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