Scott Porter to play Coach Taylor in the Friday Night Lights musical
According to Variety, the visionaries behind the O.C. musical we reported on earlier this year are back, and they’ve managed to add singing and dancing to another beloved TV show: Friday Night Lights. The team behind the production “recently got the legal go-ahead from NBC Universal,” so The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical will officially premiere on some stage in L.A. at some unknown date in 2016. The show will then run for either a single night or a single weekend, presumably depending on whether or not the producers can convince audiences that it’s not really about football, it’s about a small town where football is a big deal.
This whole thing gets even better, though, because the Friday Night Lights musical will feature Scott Porter, one of the actual stars of the show, as its lead. Porter played local hero Jason Street, but in the musical he’ll take on Kyle Chandler’s role and be the endlessly inspirational Coach Taylor. That’s pretty much all we officially know about this production, but we would like to take this opportunity to present our pitch for what will surely be Coach Taylor’s big number, a song we’d like to call “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts.”
It goes a little something—dramatic pause—like this:
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose
Put on your pads and tie your shoes.
It’s Friday night and we’re ready to fight
So let’s get real and hit that field.
This show’s about football
But it’s not ABOUT football