![]() Kristen Bell provides the magical inner singing voice only Marge and the viewers can hear. The other gimmick of the episode is also functionally fabulous: in Marge’s mind, she has the voice of a Disney princess. Marge has only happy memories of being the stage manager of her high school musical, even though she never considered herself a singer. The show is called “Y2K: The Millennium Bug,” and the opening ode to pre-millennial paranoia teases wonderful promise with lines like “How will I survive when all of the computers think I’ve died?” This and the closing song, “5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 0 0,” with those ominous extra zeroes which couldn’t be accounted for on old motherboards, are truly worthy of The Simpsons tradition of comic musical offerings par excellence. It begins at the funeral for Springfield High School’s theater director Franklin Chase, and Marge wants to bring the whole gang back together for one last revival of their senior year production, only to find she was never really part of the group. The techies, theater-geeks, and all the animators pull out almost all the stops for the season 33 premiere, but offer a mixed bag, even when it takes a Wicked turn. Sadly, The Simpsons’ “The Star of the Backstage” can’t go Rent-free. Why don’t we do the show right here, Mickey Rooney or Judy Garland might ask in a Hollywood Golden Age movie about barnstorming local theater. This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. ![]()
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