While the idea of infusing a weekly TV series with a Broadway musical ethos isn't exactly a new one--think Randy Newman's ambitious Cop Rock--it became something of a turn-of the-century television mini-trend. But few have reached as far--or succeeded--like this November 2001 episode of Fox Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Penned by series creator-producer Joss Whedon and performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar and cast, it's a loving, loopy musical pastiche that takes potshots at everything from Andrew Lloyd Webber to alt-rock. Paralleling the show's lovable pop culture tweaking, the musical styles here (the episode's musical conceit is a curse visited upon Buffy's hometown of Sunnydale) range from a patent footlight chorus of demons being interrupted by Gellar's hard-rocking stake thrusts on "Going Through the Motions" to Spike the Vampire's goth-metal complaint "Rest in Peace," with everything from parking tickets and mustard stain removal to climactic duels with the supernatural getting the Broadway send-up. Also includes strong orchestral score-suites from three other episodes, as well as Whedon and wife Kai Cole's demo for "Something to Sing About."
1. Overture / Going Through The Motions
2. I've Got A Theory / Bunnies / If We're Together
3. Mustard, The
4. Under Your Spell
5. I'll Never Tell
6. Parking Ticket, The
7. Rest In Peace
8. Dawn's Lament
9. Dawn's Ballet
10. What You Feel
11. Standing
12. Under Your Spell / Standing - (reprise)
13. Walk Through The Fire
14. Something To Sing About
15. What You Feel - (reprise)
16. Where Do We Go From Here?
17. Coda
18. End Credits: Broom Dance / Grr Argh
19. Main Title
20. Suite From Restless: Willow's Nightmare / First Rage / Chain Of Ancients
21. Suite From Hush: Silent Night / First Kiss / Enter The Gentleman / Schism
22. Sacrifice (from "The Gift")
23. Something To Sing About - (featuring Kai Cole/Joss Whedon, demo)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling
