History Theatre / MidnightChannelTheMusical

!! ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' contains examples of:

* [[spoiler:DeathSong: The reprise of "More Than the Tough Times", sung by Nanako as she lies dying in her hospital bed.]]

* DownerEnding: Not to the musical, but to the project itself. Things were looking up until that C&D came...

* DemonicPossession: As discussed above in PragmaticAdaptation, Shadows now possess their hosts instead of appearing outside them.

* TarotMotifs: It IS based off of [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]], after all. Igor gives a short explanation about what each Arcana is soon before the appropriate Shadow is explored.

* [[spoiler:SuddenlyVoiced: The main character in "Captain, Oh Captain", after which he gets a solo number as he [[WhatTheHellHero calls out the team for their willingness to throw Namatame into the TV without hearing Nametame out first.]]]]

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://ryan-and-leigh.tumblr.com/post/78784599668/its-time-for-a-major-update Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. This was likely because ''Persona 4'' already had two stage productions in Japan, with an [[Theater/Persona3TheWeirdMasquerade official musical]] for ''VideoGame/Persona3'' running at the time. The musical's songs have since been reuploaded to [[https://soundcloud.com/midnight-channel-233411453 this location]].

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://ryan-and-leigh.tumblr.com/post/78784599668/its-time-for-a-major-update Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. This was likely because ''Persona 4'' already had two stage productions in Japan, with an official musical for ''VideoGame/Persona3'' running at the time. The musical's songs have since been reuploaded to [[https://soundcloud.com/midnight-channel-233411453 this location]].

** PragmaticAdaptation: A few tweaks were also made to other aspects of the game. Shadows, instead of appearing as an [[EvilCounterpart evil doppleganger]] of the person, now [[DemonicPossession possess their host]] instead (indicated by a change in lighting). [[spoiler:Igor now combines his old role with Marie's as a character meant to guide Hope, Despair, and Emptiness to perform their roles in Izanami's test, but ends up favoring Hope and gives the main character his support.]]

* CutSong: A few songs previously featured on the track list were cut out as the project developed.[[note]]"I Got Something", where Adachi arrests Rise's stalker, and Partners (Reprise), where the MC encourages Yosuke after he speaks out in "Here At the End"[[/note]]
** "100 Point Font" was originally meant to simply be a love song for Valentine's Day and not an actual track, [[InvertedTrope but it ended up being incorporated into the musical.]]

* SidekickSong: "Partners"

''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' (which was known as ''Persona 4 Musical'' before the name was changed) is the musical adaptation of the video game ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', and was started by brother-and-sister duo of Gina and Jake Smith in late 2012. Much like the original game, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent a nameless high school student]] moves to a small, peaceful town named Inaba for a year. Soon after he arrives, though, a series of murders and kidnappings begin, and it quickly falls to the character and an [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ever-increasing]] [[FireForgedFriends band of friends]] to stop the culprit by saving his or her victims from the [[EldritchLocation TV World]], where monsters called Shadows kill those trapped for too long.

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://ryan-and-leigh.tumblr.com/post/78784599668/its-time-for-a-major-update Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. [[note]]This was likely because ''Persona 4'' already had two stage productions in Japan as well as a musical for ''VideoGame/Persona3''. [[/note]] The musical's songs have since been reuploaded to [[https://soundcloud.com/midnight-channel-233411453 this location]].

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://ryan-and-leigh.tumblr.com/post/78784599668/its-time-for-a-major-update Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. [[note]]This was likely because ''Persona 4'' already had a live stage production in Japan. [[/note]] The musical's songs have since been reuploaded to [[https://soundcloud.com/midnight-channel-233411453 this location]].

* [[spoiler: DeathSong: The reprise of "More Than the Tough Times", sung by Nanako as she lies dying in her hospital bed.]]

* FlatWhat: [[spoiler: The main character's response when Naoto labels him as a suspect in "Putting it Out There".]]

* [[spoiler: SuddenlyVoiced: The main character in "Captain, Oh Captain", after which he gets a solo number as he [[WhatTheHellHero calls out the team for their willingness to throw Namatame into the TV without hearing Nametame out first.]]]]

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://ryan-and-leigh.tumblr.com/post/78784599668/its-time-for-a-major-update Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. The musical's songs have since been reuploaded to [[https://soundcloud.com/midnight-channel-233411453 this location]].

** PragmaticAdaptation: A few tweaks were also made to other aspects of the game. Shadows, instead of appearing as an [[EvilCounterpart evil doppleganger]] of the person, now [[DemonicPossession possess their host]] instead (indicated by a change in lighting). [[spoiler:Igor now combines his old role with Marie's as a character meant to guide Hope, Despair, and Emptiness to perform their roles in Izanami's test, but ends up favoring Hope and gives the main character his support.]]

* AdaptationDistillation: A given, considering how long the game itself is. Notable changes include removing combat (as well as Personas), eliminating Social Links, and skipping over Mitsuo's dungeon as well as most of the comedic segments.

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://ryan-and-leigh.tumblr.com/post/78784599668/its-time-for-a-major-update Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. While the theater production is no more, Jake and Gina Smith are currently holding a Kickstarter in order to produce a CD with tracks from the musical with a professional level of quality, with all copyrighted names and mentions stripped out. [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077491504/ryan-and-leigh-volume-1-stand-by You can find the Kickstarter here.]]

* [[spoiler: SuddenlyVoiced: The main character in "Captain, Oh Captain", after which he gets a solo number as he [[WhatTheHellHero calls out the team for their willingness to throw Namatame into the TV without hearing him out first.]]]]

* IAmSong: Every single Shadow has their own song, which acts as the musical's version of the game's {{breaking speech}]es.

Much of the musical was completed, including the script and a vast majority of the songs in the show. Many of these tracks were put onto the [[http://persona4musical.tumblr.com project's Tumblr]] (which also serves as their main webpage), and there were even a read-through of the first two of acts of script recorded and shared online. The musical itself remained a close adaptation of the game; however, [[AdaptationDistillation due to the limitations of compressing a 100+ hour game into a three-hour stage performance]], [[PragmaticAdaptation as well as to make it more accessible to people who have not played the games before]], several major changes were made to the plot.

Unfortunately, plans for theater performances were halted when [[http://persona4musical.tumblr.com/post/74858090456/for-the-past-year-since-the-day-we-first-were#note-container Atlus issued a cease and desist order on January 28th, 2014]], and they were forced to take all work related to ''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' down. Currently Jake and Gina Smith are reworking the musical to remove all copyrighted material, but Midnight Channel: The Musical is officially gone.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHv8h9kr_6M For the aforementioned script read-through, follow this link.]]

* BadGirlSong: Shadow Rise's song seems to be this [[SubvertedTrope on the surface]], but it's more about Rise's lack of identity and self-worth.

''Midnight Channel: The Musical'' (which was known as ''Persona 4 Musical'' before the name was changed) is the musical adaptation of the video game [[{{Persona4}} Persona 4]], and was started by brother-and-sister duo of Gina and Jake Smith in late 2012. Much like the original game, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent a nameless high school student]] moves to a small, peaceful town named Inaba for a year. Soon after he arrives, though, a series of murders and kidnappings begin, and it quickly falls to the character and an [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ever-increasing]] [[FireForgedFriends band of friends]] to stop the culprit by saving his or her victims from the [[EldritchLocation TV World]], where monsters called Shadows kill those trapped for too long.