‘Murder At The Gates’ is a killer new musical, with book and lyrics by the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning Steven Sater (‘Spring Awakening’) and music, production and songwriting by the chart-topping, multi-Platinum musician James Bourne, who himself was nominated for an Olivier Award for ‘Loserville’. More than a decade in the making, it features an array of major talents from the stage and screen. The concept album for the forthcoming new musical is out now and was launched alongside the first song ‘F**kin’ Scream’ which features vocals from Gaten Matarazzo, best known for portraying fan favourite Dustin in the global phenomenon ‘Stranger Things’. Listen HERE.
‘Murder At The Gates’ is ‘Cluedo’ meets ‘Clueless’, a black-comic murder mystery from a Gen-Z, gated-community America. It’s a dark and stormy night. Cameron’s birthday. To her horror, her rugged, entitled Dad is throwing her a party to help her get over the worst year ever. The sudden death of her mother and a gruesome break-up from her soul-mate, the poet-rebel Ethan. And so, the stage is set. A Murder Mystery Party!
All of Cam’s supposed friends arrive in costume. It’s all going splendidly, until the party “murder” occurs. And somehow, it’s real. Someone’s dead. And now, the security system locks down. Are they locked in with some maniac? Or is the killer one of them? Knives out, one by one, all the guests start to go down. At least, the night has a theme: It’s Your Party, and You’ll Die if They Want You.
The first song from the album, ‘Fuckin’ Scream’, features Gaten Matarazzo in the role of Graham. Living up to his stage background in the likes of ‘Rent’ and ‘Les Misérables’, his vigorous punk rock performance captures the panic and the fear of a friend caught in the murderous mayhem of this dark and stormy night. Sonically it hits the homicidal halfway house of two of James Bourne’s main musical passions – like the pop-punk rush of My Chemical Romance catapulted into a blood-splattered rock opera.
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