The Simpsons have announced that they’ll be kicking off season 33 of the show with an all musical episode starring Kristen Bell as a singing Marge.
The cartoon’s executive producer Matt Selman shared the news during the Comic-Con panel.
“The premiere this year is the most musical episode we’ve ever done – almost wall-to-wall music,” Selman said. “It’s like a Broadway musical of an episode, with all original songs, and we’ve got Kristen Bell playing the role of Marge’s singing voice. We all love Marge’s voice, but this is the singing voice that’s different, let’s just say,” Selman revealed.
The episode will be titled The Star of the Backstage and is scheduled to air on September 26th. A small snippet of the episode was also shared and featured Homer singing to an annoyed-looking Marge in the bathroom in his underwear.
Marge has amazing memories of being the stage manager of her high school musical, Y2K: The Millennium Bug, and decides to restage it with everyone 20 years later for one last show,” Selman told EW of the plot. “But when her old high school nemesis comes to town, she realizes that her high school memories aren’t what she thought they were.”
“The only place Marge sang beautifully was in her head, so she has a magical inside singing voice that only we can hear,” he says. “When she sings, it comes out beautiful, like Kristen Bell,” Selman added.
While the Simpsons have incorporated some singing and music into multiple episodes over the decades, this episode will be the most musically involved yet.
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The panel also revealed some other tidbits about upcoming The Simpsons episodes. It was revealed that this year’s “Treehouse Of Horror” episode will forego the usual three-part structure in favor of five snippets of life-giving horror content instead.
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