The idea of superhero singing and dancing on stage is something that the creative team behind Disney+'s Hawkeye has wanted to realize for some time, and they get right to it. Rogers: The Musical is an over-the-top nightmare that seems to be an answer to Hamilton.
Clint Barton, played by Jeremy Renner, takes his children to a showing of Rogers in the first episode of "Never Meet Your Heroes" because he wanted them to see a movie. Clint and the other theater patrons have signed up for a variety of shows, and the musical shows you enough to give you an idea. Clint has to rush out of the theater because the Battle of New York turned into entertainment too much for him.
Clint leaving the theater makes it so that you don't actually get a chance to hear the full song being sung on stage in the episode, since people have clearly been clamoring for the entire track.
Rogers: The Musical is an interesting reflection on how people in the present-day MCU are dealing with the return to their normal lives in the wake of the events of Endgame. Clint Barton is going to have a lot of issues as the series goes on, and it feels like he may be facing one of the biggest issues in the show, the depiction of people who seem to have no issues at all falling back into a monotony of life.
The first two episodes of Hawkeye are available on Disney+.
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