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During Monday’s network upfronts in New York, NBC debuted a five minute trailer for the upcoming Will & Grace revival, and it’s a doozy. The clip opens with Grace, played by Debra Messing, having second thoughts about the revival. Co-star Eric McCormack (Will) magically transports Debra to the show’s set, where they find Karen (Megan Mullally – in character) asleep on the sofa and Jack (Sean Hayes – also in character) showing the apartment to a potential hook-up. Grace opens the refrigerator and bursts into song and, for a moment, it made me miss Smash. RIP.
The rest of the gang join Debra for the show-stopping number, which adds some W&G-centric lyrics to “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard (you can’t stump this musical theater nerd!) Debra sings, “Yes, a world to rediscover, in our sitcom-sized apartment we could never afford.” Karen sings about her still boozy ways and Jack promises the new season will deliver more “anonymous liaisons with tall guys and with shorties.”
The cast made an appearance at Monday’s upfronts (and sang the number live), where Eric told PEOPLE, “We had always wanted to do a musical episode on the show and we finally got to do it. It was such a hopeful song and funny and light.” Eric also feels that we need Will & Grace now more than ever, adding:
When we did the show, we had 9/11, we had the Iraq war, there was a Republican government for six of those eight years. We didn’t address it, we didn’t do an AIDS episode. We were an escape, we were an antidote to all of that. So if there’s anything we need, especially this week, it’s an antidote.
[From PEOPLE]
The new season of Will & Grace is a limited, 12-episode run, and will premiere on NBC this fall, as the network attempts to bring “Must See TV” back to Thursday nights. The show will kickoff the night, followed by Great News (which you really should check out, especially if you’re a fan of Tina Fey), This is Us (which is moving from its Tuesday night slot) and the premiere of Dick Wolf’s Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. Along with Eric, Debra, Sean and Megan, series creators and director James Burrows are all on board for the revival. But, is Rosario coming back? I NEED TO KNOW.
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