‘The Flash’ Spoilers: Will There Be A Musical Episode In Season 4?

“The Flash” star Danielle Panabaker revealed that the CW series has no plans for a musical episode in Season 4.

During a press conference at Dragon Con this past weekend, Panabaker — who plays Caitlin Snow and Killer Frost on the show — explained why she thinks producers of the show decided not to do a follow-up to last season’s musical episode, “Duet.”

“That musical was pretty ambitious,” Panabaker said (via Comics Beat) of last year’s mini crossover between “The Flash” and “Supergirl.” “I think by the time we finished the musical, we were pretty exhausted. “[So] to the best of my knowledge we’re not going to do that again this year.”

In “Duet,” Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) were sent by the Music Meister (Darren Criss) into a musical dream world populated by Arrowverse characters playing completely different roles. The musical episode concluded with the Music Meister confessing that he only “whammied” Barry and Kara for them to realize how much they love their respective partners (Iris and Mon-El).

In an interview with the New York Times last March, executive producer Greg Berlanti said that he wasn’t really worried about how fans would receive the musical, because it’s one of the episodes that they just wanted to do no matter what. “Every so often you’re like, ‘if I die tomorrow, if the show went off the air tomorrow, at least we did this episode,’” he told the news outlet at the time.

After all, Berlanti had wanted to do a “Flash” musical episode long before “Supergirl” moved from CBS to the CW. “Greg has been talking about a musical since before ‘Supergirl’ started,” Blake Neely, composer on all the network’s DC comics TV series, told TV Insider. “I think he got it in him when they cast Grant [Gustin for ‘The Flash’]. The man is a creative genius.”

While there were some fans who were thrilled about the musical, there were also some who were less interested in it. In fact, Berlanti’s fellow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg acknowledged that there were some viewers who think that the musical was too much of a stretch — something that he didn’t personally agree with.

“We have them fighting sentient gorillas the week before, so for us it’s not any crazier or sillier that they’re singing,” Kreisberg explained to the New York Times. In addition, given the oddly high proportion of singers on both cast of the shows, the exec producer said that “at some point it became entertainment malpractice to not do it.”

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“The Flash” Season 4 premieres on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m. EDT on The CW.