Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2023: Week 9

The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, colloquially referred to as just "the Bridgerton Musical," is a concept album written by Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear. Based on the Netflix series and written primarily on TikTok in 2021, the album retells the plot of the first season. It is well-beloved among fans, many of whom only watched Bridgerton because of the musical's popularity. The album also has had many fans who had never seen the source material in a interesting example of recursive fandom.

The album won a Grammy Award after being released and subsequently Barlow and Bear put on several performances of the musical, with one being staged at the Kennedy Center in New York. These performances caused the pair to run into legal troubles with Netflix.