Frequently Asked Questions

Vala is a production studio, and a new kind of regional theater for the world. We make Muzi™ — short musical films, fully produced, Broadway ready. A Muzi is a six-episode EP that delivers the first 25 minutes of a new musical, with original songs by working theater writers and performances by Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Tony-recognized artists. It is a fully produced introduction to a show that may live on as a Broadway production, a series, a film, or as the Muzi™ itself.

Episode 1 of every Muzi is free. After that, single episodes are 99¢, and the full Muzi EP — all six episodes — is $3.99. A monthly subscription will launch when the catalog reaches twenty titles.

Yes. Forever. All Vala education — meeting national standards, including workbooks, teacher guides, and classroom materials, distributed in partnership with the Johnny Mercer Foundation — is forever free for students, teachers, and schools. We believe the audience of tomorrow is built through education today, and we won’t put a paywall between a young person and a song.

On any screen — phone, tablet, laptop, smart TV — at watchamuzi.com. Episode 1 of every Muzi is free. Join our email list and we’ll let you know the moment the curtain goes up.

June 16, 2026. Bloomsday. Four titles open the season simultaneously: Himself & Nora (in partnership with the James Joyce Centre, Dublin), A Complicated Woman, Pissin’ With the Tall Dogs, and Nightmare Alley.

A Muzi is a new format we invented and trademarked: a six-episode EP, fully produced as a short musical film, made by working theater artists, designed to be watched anywhere. It’s our answer to the question, what would a new musical look like if its first 25 minutes were built for a screen first?

Sometimes a Muzi™ is the whole story — six episodes, beautifully made, and that’s enough. Sometimes it’s the beginning of something bigger. A Muzi™ can continue as a series. It can grow into a full Off-Broadway or Broadway production. It can become a feature film. The Muzi™ introduces the show. Where it goes next is part of the story, and our audience is part of how it gets there.

Because a new musical typically takes ten years and millions of dollars to reach a stage — and most never get there. AI lets us produce original work in months, at a fraction of the cost, without compromising the writing or the music. Those are still authored by human artists.

Here’s the key thing to understand: every Muzi™ begins with real human performances. The acting is always human — real actors, never AI. And every song starts with a real human voice: a human sings it — sometimes the original artist, sometimes a member of our team — and AI may then shape or enhance that vocal to serve the story. Think of it as a radio show with pictures, where the performance always starts with a human. AI doesn’t invent the songs or the performances; it helps bring them to life, and renders the images, the way animation always has — just at a new level of realism. That’s why we call it musical photoreal animation.

Each Muzi™ is an incubator. It seeds demand and builds an audience for full-length live musicals, helping artists get their work funded and staged — work that might otherwise sit in a drawer because no one can afford the millions it takes to reach a stage. AI is a tool in the hands of artists — and every artist is always credited and earns a royalty, whether they performed the work or inspired an AI-shaped vocal. A meaningful share of every Muzi’s revenue goes back to the writers, performers, and directors who made it.

Our philosophy, plainly stated: artists using AI, for artists.