MURDER AT THE GATES Featuring Gaten Matarazzo, Ramin Karimloo, and More To Release Concept Album
This news is to die for! Murder at the Gates, a killer new musical with book and lyrics by Tony Award-winner Steven Sater and music by James Bourne, is releasing a concept album on July 1. The first song, “Fuckin’ Scream,” featuring vocals by Gaten Matarazzo, is available for streaming now (listen here).
Murder At The Gates is Clue meets Clueless, a black-comic murder mystery from a Gen-Z, gated-community America. It tells the story of Cameron, whose dad is throwing her a birthday murder mystery party to help her get over her worst year ever. Her friends all arrive in costume, and all is going well. When the party murder happens, though, things get real: someone’s actually dead.
“Back in the day, when I was first conceiving Spring Awakening, I was urged to update the story to contemporary times,” writer Sater said. “As I suspected, that didn’t work. But that energy spilled into Murder at the Gates, a black comic look at how totally effed life can be as a young person today."
In addition to Gaten Matarazzo, Murder At The Gates features Milo Manheim, Isa Briones, Joy Woods, Helen J Shen, Mason Alexander Park, Casey Likes, and Ramin Karimloo.
An early version of Murder At The Gates previously played at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2013 before two rehearsed readings at The Other Palace, London, in 2019 and more recently, a workshop with Madison Wells Media in NYC in 2024.
The Murder At The Gates soundtrack is available to pre-order/pre-save here.
