Neil Patrick Harris + Batman = Love
Fire up those DVRs, kids, because on Friday of this week, 23 October, the multi-talented and fabulously out Neil Patrick Harris is going to be playing - and singing - the part of a villain named the Music Meister on the cartoon series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. One synopsis I've read suggests that the Music Meister's unnaturally persuasive voice will cause multiple heroes and villains to burst into song-and-dance routines illuminating their various feelings for one another and towards Batman in classic Broadway style. If The Bat himself sings a song I might actually faint dead away.
I am studiously avoiding comment on that, um, baton.
Of course the big in-joke is that NPH's sudden second career as a song and dance man seems to have started when he played the equally musical villainous title character in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, but we're all on the Internet so we all already know that, right? I'm sure it - or possibly this episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold - is not to everyone's tastes, but as one of the stereotypical drama refugees who lived for the high school musical every spring I am having trouble imagining an episode I'd want to watch more. Even if one doesn't particularly like NPH or musicals, one has to marvel at how Harris' agent must be the most pleasantly surprised person in LA.
And please, can the media stop referring to him as "Doogie?" It is over. Let it go.
Doogie suits up for TV's Batman [Tubular - The Houston Chronicle]
Klarion
Posted to Television on 19 October 2009
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Not so much.
He was in the musicals Assassins in 2004; Cabaret, 2003; and the Rent, 1997 tour; among others.
Thank you for the correction!
Hm, is this a sequel or a rebroadcast? I think this already aired as the season finale. And yes, NPH is the man - I saw him in Sweeney Todd with Pati LuPone at the SF Symphony a bunch of years ago. He's adorable. It should be mentioned that his cartoon form is not as cute as he is in real life.
You can watch the Brave and the Bold episode in question YouTube (illegally?) here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkz6qddXnsA&feature=related
This may be a rebroadcast. Some of the things I read mentioning it gave the impression it was a first-run and some that it was a rerun. I decided that either way, it was worthy of some note. :)
This episode was great, and the songs are so infectious! It may even be able to unseat the one with Batmite as my favorite Brave and the Bold episode.