36 QUESTIONS - SONGS FROM ACT 1 (2017)
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New from Two-Up, the creators of Limetown, is 36 Questions- a three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton. In 36 Questions, a couple attempts to bring their marriage back from the brink of divorce using 36 revealing questions designed to make strangers fall in love.
Creator Ellen Winter told Vulture: "When you're writing a musical for the stage, you can really think about how a song can be many things - it can be a vehicle to move the plot along or a moment of emotion where you can see characters do things while they sing, which provides this whole other plane of experiencing the song. But when you musicalize a podcast, or podcast-alize a musical, every single word is important. Everything you hear coming through the headphones needs to provide some sort of information that makes you want to leave them in your ear."
Back in 2015, a New York Times “Modern Love” column proclaimed, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This.” The “this” referred to asking a series of questions — 36, to be exact — designed to foster intimacy between two people. Now, those three-dozen questions are being put to the test again in a wildly inventive new musical podcast from the producers of Limetown and costarring Hamilton Tony nominee Jonathan Groff.
36 Questions, a new, three-act musical whose first installment is available now, stars Groff (Hamilton, Frozen, Glee) and Jessie Shelton as a couple who use those famous questions to try and save their marriage. Their story, which features original music and unfolds over the course of the podcast, poses questions about love, intimacy, and the lies people tell to their significant others.
“I saw a ‘musical podcast’ in the subject line and I was immediately intrigued,” Groff tells EW of being approached for the project. He plays Jase, who is married to a woman named Judith (Shelton) — except, that’s not the name she gave him when they met, dated, and wed. After learning of her deception, he flees to his childhood home and she follows, bringing a copy of the 36 questions along with her. (There’s also a duck involved, but we swear it makes sense in the context of the story.) “There are a lot of questions [in the musical] about identity and what we present in relationships as opposed to what we actually are in relationships, and what happens when those labels fall away,” he explains. “The story sort of ends up becoming like a Richard Linklater movie as it evolves. It jumps to places that you wouldn’t expect and you really get to see the emotional evolution in this relationship as it goes along.”
