War of the Worlds, the Musical

This was the first installment of The Shows Must Go On that I caught since the fall 2020 series started. War of the Worlds, the Musical looked interesting. In my head, they took the radio play by Orson Welles and wrote music and songs to add to the story. As the YouTube video started, the camera panned over the stage showing an orchestra and what looked like a single chair by a microphone, which almost confirmed my prediction. As the production began, I learned that was the conductor's stand, and from the costumes I realiezed, that we had gone back in time further than Welles' 1938 broadcast. We went back to 1898, for H.G. Wells' original story. Then the music started and we were flung forward nearly 100 years into the 1980s (Late 70s, really).