Video: JC Chasez and Platinum Songwriter Jimmy Harry Are Playing with Fire

Welcome to another Edition of The Roundtable on BroadwayWorld! This week we welcome pop superstar JC Chasez and platinum songwriter Jimmy Harry to talk about their new album Playing With Fire now streaming! We all know JC as the *N’Sync Superstar who has sold over 50 million records, grew up on the Mickey Mouse Club, and danced and sung his way into our hearts. Jimmy Harry is a songwriter who has written for everyone from Pink to Britney Spears to Madonna! These supertalents have come together to record the newest musical theatre concept album, Playing With Fire.

Inspired by Mary Shelly’s timeless novel Frankenstein, Playing with Fire marks Chasez’s first major musical theater recording project. Chasez is also featured as a vocalist alongside singers Cardamon Rozzi and Lily Elise. Featuring a collection of 16 original new tracks, Playing With Fire first came to fruition when Harry presented Chasez the script of his late mother’s (Barbara Field) theatrical adaptation of Shelley’s prescient sci-fi story. Chasez was immediately intrigued with the play, and work on it immediately began, creating a heartfelt story of timely technological issues, love, responsibility, revenge, loss, and the human condition.

This reimagining of the classic tale constructs a conversation between Frankenstein and his creation, The Creature, at the grave of Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth, ten years after her death. Through dynamic interplay of dialogue and shared flashbacks of key events in both their lives, the concept album plunges into the heart of their intertwined destinies. As they confront their past actions and the devastating impact they’ve had on one another, Frankenstein and The Creature gradually find understanding, sympathy, and forgiveness.

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