The Confession Musical

The Golden Cage

2023

Two creatures meet on either side of its bars — Boris, half-man and half-bird, and Alphea, a melodramatic diva. Boris is stranded on the outside after a lifetime searching for the cage, and Alphea is trapped on the inside and longs for freedom, yet fears the outside and can’t remember how she got trapped inside.

Fame

1980 · ★ 6.4

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

The Broken Melody

1934 · ★ 7

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

A Girl on the Road

1952 · ★ 4.3

To escape his female fans, Carlos Cortez makes for the Riviera. Along the way, he picks up a hitchhiker named Annabel who invites him to go camping with her friends. Living under his real name, the incognito star wins new friends. But a theft complicates things. Fortunately, Annabel is still around and Jacques can do no better than to marry her.

The Butterfly Lovers

1954 · ★ 7.7

A traditional chinese story about a girl, Zhu Yingtai, daughter of the noble Mr. Zhu, who goes to Hangzhou to study, dressed as a boy. There, she meets a student, Liang Shanbo, with whom she becomes good friends. They go to school together for the following years, and Zhu gradually falls in love with Liang.

Death Note: The Musical

2015 · ★ 10

A high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.

Gasparone

1937 · ★ 5.6

In the fantasy state of Olivia, the robber chief Gasparone is up to all sorts of mischief. But Prefect Nasoni is not only worried about him, his son Sindulfo is also causing him headaches. He is supposed to marry Countess Ambrat, but loves Ita, the niece of Massaccio, a somewhat obscure existence. Then the elegant Erminio appears, and the countess makes eyes at him. Confusion after confusion until Massaccio is unmasked as Gasparone. Erminio turns out to be a civil servant who was set on Gasparone and now gets his beautiful countess. Sindulfo is the last to embrace his Ita.

The Emperor of Atlantis

1977 · ★ 10

Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.

Eve Knew Her Apples

1945 · ★ 5.6

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.

Funny Face

1957 · ★ 7

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Tu Meri Zindagi Hai

A self-destructive, tormented rockstar finds his life and love transformed through an intense romantic journey shaped by music and emotion.

The Music Man

1962 · ★ 7.1

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.