March 22, 2010 -
According to SciFiWire.com, the happenings on FOX's Fringe are about to change from freaky and weird to…musically inspiring?
This musical episode of Fringe, entitled "Overture," will air during a Glee-themed week of music-inspired programming in May, and will feature the series regulars (Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson) breaking into song and dance. This could either go the excellent route of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's famous "Once More, With Feeling" episode, or the awful route of failed series like Cop Rock and Viva Laughlin.
Apparently, the plot-device that's being used to inject a few musical numbers into the Fringe-verse isn't the haywire alternate universe like we might expect. The routines will come about thanks to hallucinations being suffered by mad-scientist, Walter (John Noble).
"When I first read [the script], I thought, 'How are they going to pull this off?'" said actress Jasika Nicole (Agent Farnsworth). "This is really weird.' And it makes complete sense within the story. It's essentially Walter kind of manifesting his idea. He's trying to get his mind off of, you know, what's going on because he's just waiting to see what's going to go on with Peter. And essentially he's kind of created this little world in his head. And so everything is super-symbolic so all the characters embody the qualities that he notices about them the most, which is really neat. And it happens in the 1940s. Everybody's in 1940s dress, but they still have cell phones and stuff."
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