Riverdale Is Bringing Hedwig And The Angry Inch To Life This April

You know it, you love it: Riverdale's musical episode tradition.


Yes, the teen drama is doing it once more, with an entirely new story up its sleeve for Season 4. Right now that Kevin Keller (Casey Cott) has revived Riverdale High's variety show, he's got to take it all of the way, especially immediately after Mr. Honey (Kerr Smith) forbids him to perform a number from the popular musical Hedwig and the Furious Inch.


needless to say, Mr. Honey's mandate won't be the last word on the scenario. The students at Riverdale determine to pull with each other and perform their own renditions of a few songs from the musical, all representative of their personalities. There's also word some order kind of a "forbidden showmance" that could bloom during all of the drama.


"Musical episodes have become a yearly tradition on Riverdale, nevertheless this year, we wanted to try something different," mentioned show runner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa of the musical episode in a statement. Whenever we heard that Stephen Trask was a fan of Riverdale, we thought – is there a way we can do Hedwig and still have it tie into the stories we're telling?" The team worked in a way to do so, indeed.


"Doing a deep dive, we figured out a cool way to use classic songs like ‘Wicked Little Town' and ‘Midnight Radio' that made total sense and are just astonishing and iconic. And bonus, Hedwig is literally Cole's preference musical!" And right now we know although another reason why he's so ridiculously cool.


The upcoming musical episode is set to air this spring. Be sure to clear your schedule for Wednesday, April 8 and settle in for what's guaranteed to be a wild ride.