TV STAGE TUBE: Wildhorn on WONDERLAND - 'I Follow My Heart'

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Frank Wildhorn's new musical, WONDERLAND: Alice's New Musical Adventure  is set to debut in Tampa late this year. WONDERLAND begins performances on November 24, 2009 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.

The production has a new website, Wonderlandthemusical.org featuring song clips, video interviews and other exciting content. BWW TV brings you some of the very special video interviews right here on Stage Tube!

A studio album will be recorded in late Spring in New York city featuring several Broadway stars and Wildhorn favorites as the show's publicity machine gears up for the new musical's eagerly anticipated launch.

Broadway Genesis is intended to help create new works of American theater to play the Tampa market, and then possibly tour other performing arts centers or move to Broadway. The first venture will be Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure, slated to have its world premiere in Tampa on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 in TBPAC's Ferguson Hall. The music for Wonderland is by Frank Wildhorn, the composer of The Civil War and Jekyll & Hyde, with lyrics by Jack Murphy and a book by Phoebe Hwang. Gregory Boyd will direct. Other members of the creative team will be announced at a later date.

Wonderland is set in present-day Manhattan and a timeless Wonderland. The new musical tells the story of author Alice Cornwinkle (a descendent of Lewis Carroll's muse Alice Liddell), who is struggling with her career and her daughter, Chloe.

With a chaotic Wonderland in danger of disappearing into nothingness, only Alice can restore balance and joy. Audiences will journey with her through the Looking-Glass from New York City to a strange-yet-familiar place where she must reclaim her daughter, defeat the Queen of Hearts and learn to follow her heart.

Tony and Grammy nominated composer Frank Wildhorn, who, in 1999, had three shows running on Broadway simultaneously, is about to duplicate that feat in Europe, with three new original musicals, RUDOLF: THE MAYERLING AFFAIR, CARMEN, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO and CYRANO all open or opening later this year.