Someone is writing an Avatar: The Last Airbender musical and it’s really good
By Dan Selcke
You know how you know that Avatar: The Last Airbender is finding new fans? If teens on Tik Tok are writing musicals about it. Musicals I would 100% watch.
Avatar: The Last Airbender, a 15-year-old animated fantasy epic from Nickelodeon, continues to find new life after it was released on Netflix a couple months back. In fact, it’s been so popular that it hasn’t slipped out of the top 10 most watched shows since the day it became available, setting a new record. That bodes well for the live-action adaptation Netflix is planning to make.
When that adaptation comes, it may have a new crop of younger fans. At any rate, I get the idea that Katherine Lynn Rose will at least check it out. Rose puts out content on Tik Tok, the home of young people on the net, and she’s been writing a sharing a variety of Last Airbender musical numbers that, no joke, I think are pretty good.
For example, have a listen to this sweet love ballad from Aang to Katara, “In the Clouds”:
here’s another one of her songs they’re amazing!! https://t.co/drdRvY3PDr pic.twitter.com/E1PqmWKE8k
— savi (@MlTSUBAA) July 16, 2020
Or there’s “Welcome to Ba Sing Se,” where Rose plays multiple characters as Team Avatar arrives at the capital of the Earth Kingdom, which is doing its hardest to convince its citizens that everything is fine and that the Fire Nation isn’t trying to conquer the world right outside their gates:
THIS 17 YEAR OLD GIRL IS MAKING AN ENTIRE AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER MUSICAL ON TIKTOK?! OH MY GOD?!! follow @ katherine.lynnrose, she’s written a lot of songs already oh my god pic.twitter.com/rJ1e2cvyba
— klaudia (@kaludiasays) July 15, 2020
Rose isn’t bad at impressions, either. And there’s choreography!
Finally, she wrote one from the perspective of Azula, “Friend or Foe,” about her attempts to take down Ba Sing Se from the inside:
Look, if Legally Blonde and Mean Girls and Spider-Man can be turned into musicals, I see no reason Avatar: The Last Airbender can’t follow suit. Fans already know that it can be a play:
Whether or not Rose’s show ends up on Broadway, it’s encouraging to see more and more new people getting into this show. If you have people writing musicals about your story in their spare time, you know it’s striking a chord with them. Bring on the live-action version, I say.
Next. Zuko voice actor “looking forward to being a part of” live-action Last Airbender show. dark
To stay up to date on everything fantasy, science fiction, and WiC, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and sign up for our exclusive newsletter.
Get HBO, Starz, Showtime and MORE for FREE with a no-risk, 7-day free trial of Amazon Channels