My Chemical Romance were arguably the most theatrical band of the '00s Myspace emo boom; their only possible competition is, what, Panic! At The Disco? And given that there has already been a Broadway musical based on Green Day's American Idiot, it's pretty easy to imagine another one being built on the bones of 2006's The Black Parade, that decade's other mega-successful punk concept album. When MCR first toured behind that LP, their show already looked something like a Broadway musical. Now, it looks like an actual MCR theater spectacle is in the works.
As Broadway World points out, the punk-adjacent musical-theater veteran and Hedwig And The Angry Inch writer/director/star John Cameron Mitchell recently claimed that he's working on a "project for theater" with My Chemical Romance, who are back together and touring stadiums. On Thursday, Mitchell appeared on Bob The Drag Queen's Only Child podcast, and he didn't say much more than that:
It's a little secret. It's not announced yet, but you know I'm gonna give you a little zzzt there. That's all you're getting. And you know, we still gotta sign stuff, but they're great people. They're so luxurious now that they do one [show] a week.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL TALKING ABOUT THE SECRET THEATER PROJECT HES WORKING ON WITH MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE AGHHHH pic.twitter.com/ZkZI8k1A5Q
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John Cameron Mitchell and My Chemical Romance certainly share a certain glammy-punky sensibility, and it's easy to imagine some kind of collaboration between the two. Of course, the best way to ensure that your secret collaboration doesn't happen is to talk about it in a public forum, so who knows? But this could turn into something cool.
