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Dule Hill didn’t have enough time to choreograph a tap number for me.” The show stayed on its regular schedule while shooting the special, which features 14 original songs. Franks credits composer Adam Cohen for taking Franks’ “acoustic guitar songs and turning them into these amazing orchestral pieces, and made it into a huge, magical final piece.” The payoff for fans will be in watching actors they’ve long come to love revealing more talents. “I was always in bands in high school and college, and I certainly enjoyed singing,” Roday says. “I thought of myself as a dude who could sing in a pinch.” In this he sings a lot. “All of the numbers are ‘Psych’ joyous,” Roday says. “Yang’s death scene was the one that kind of transcended the usual ‘Psych’ good time. Not only were we killing a character that made up her own minifranchise on the show, but we do what we do pretty well.”

The best friends continue to have a truly fun rapport. At one point, the dynamic duo sings to Yang via Skype — from a broom closet, oddly enough — and it works. “She could be in Shanghai by now,” Gus says. “Please,” Shawn says, “she could be all the way to China by now.” “I think it embodies ‘Psych,’ and I am proud that all of our music was original,” Roday says. “And that we are an hourlong show, in the sense of how do you justify it, and why is it more worthy than other shows that do musicals?” Franks was not knocking any other shows, but he had a solid vision for this from the onset. “The second we mentioned musical, everyone said, ‘What covers will you do?’ (And his immediate response was): ‘Oh, God, we are not going to do the covers. What is the point of that?’ ”

THE VIEW FROM THE COUCH

(Ratings for each film begin with a “star” rating — one star meaning “poor,” four meaning “excellent” — followed by the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and then by a family-viewing guide, the key for which appears below.) STARTING THIS WEEK (New releases): “THE LONE RANGER”: Reteamed with “Pirates of the Caribbean” producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp stars in this revision of the Western

After waiting years, the “Psychos” are victorious! Die-hard fans of USA Network’s “Psych” finally get to see “Psych: The Musical” on Sunday, Dec. 15. For those who know Dule Hill only from “The West Wing,” he’s a smooth tap-dancer now starring on Broadway in “After Midnight.” He, James Roday, Timothy Omundson (who has a particularly rich baritone) and the rest of the cast also prove they can sing in the two-hour special. “After Season 5, we were at Comic-Con, and (series creator Steve Franks) put it out there to fans: ‘Do you want a musical?’ And everyone screamed,” Roday says. “He could have said, ‘Do you want a show where we all sit in a circle and break wind?’ And they would have reacted in the same way.” Franks recalls he toyed with the idea of creating a musical episode since the beginning. “We had started on the pilot, talking about doing a musical, and it was just a weird, off-in-thedistance idea,” Franks says. “We talked about it because after the last shot of the pilot, James and Dule had done a lot of singing and performed Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror.’ ” In the special, Shawn and Gus (Roday and Hill) track down crazed playwright Z (guest star Anthony Rapp, “Rent”). Z is accused of acting out every scorned playwright’s fantasy — OK, maybe only the most delusional scorned playwrights — of burning a theater to the ground with a critic inside. Z was institutionalized in a hospital for the criminally insane,

where he had, conveniently, confided in Mr. Yang (Ally Sheedy). As usual, “Psych” does not take itself too seriously, and the musical does not require knowing the series’ back stories. “I designed everything I wrote in this episode, every character in a song or dialogue, every character is introduced as if this is the first time,” Franks says. “If you never watched an episode of ‘Psych,’ this is the perfect one to get introduced.” Franks doesn’t miss a beat and acknowledges that hard-core Psychos, as fans of the seventhseason show refer to themselves, will find incongruities. “You could make a drinking game, some sort of inaccuracy within the storyline,” Franks says. “There are a whole bunch of little things, Lassie (Omundson) not wearing a wedding ring. ‘Psych’ followers, Psychos, will pick up on inaccuracies, because I was working on some of this before some of that happened.” “I think it does tie up, it certainly wraps up the Yang story,” Franks says. She is killed in this episode, but that is not necessarily a spoiler. As Hill notes, on this show, death isn’t definitively the end. “Characters don’t really die in ‘Psych’; they just morph into a different reality,” Hill says. Hill, whose parents are from Jamaica, says he particularly loved the “Jamaican Express Man” number. “That came out of me texting Steve and saying, ‘How about me doing a reggae song?’ ” Hill says. “And the way he wove it into the story, even though I didn’t get a chance to dance much, we didn’t really have any extra time with the show, I can understand why we

Johnny Depp (left) and Armie Hammer of “The Lone Ranger” legend ... but the title role of the masked man belongs to Armie Hammer (“The Social Network”). Depp adds to his roster of unique characterizations as faithful com-

panion Tonto, as the partners take on villain Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner). The picture famously underperformed at the box office, but it has moments to recommend, particularly a fight atop a train. Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson and Ruth Wilson also appear. DVD extras: outtakes. ›› (PG-13: AS, V) (Also on Blu-ray) “ELYSIUM”: Writer-director Neill Blomkamp (“District 9”) continues his vision of a bleak future Earth with a bigger budget and more star power in this effective sci-fi tale. Matt Damon plays a worker drone on the ravaged, overcrowded terra firma, which sits beneath a pristine space sta-

tion where the elite can live an idyllic lifestyle free of worry and illness. He’s desperate to get aboard, and a dangerous mission — involving his wearing of a strength-enhancing exoskeleton — may give him the means of doing so. The cast also includes Jodie Foster, “District 9” alum Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga and William Fichtner. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries. ››› (R: AS, P, GV) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “PRISONERS”: A big image shift for Hugh Jackman is a highlight of this intense melodrama. After his young daughter and a friend vanish, a likely suspect (Paul Dano) is released from po-

lice custody for lack of evidence ... prompting the desperate dad to conduct his own brand of interrogation. Jake Gyllenhaal also does solid work as a detective trying to solve the case. The strong cast boasts Maria Bello, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo as well. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE FAMILY”: Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese are partnered on a mob movie again, but not in the usual way. Scorsese is an executive producer of this comedic but still violent tale from director Luc Besson (“The Professional”), casting De

Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer as an underworld couple new to the Witness Protection Program, with a federal agent (Tommy Lee Jones) doing his best to keep them in line ... and generally failing. Dianna Agron (“Glee”) plays their daughter, who shows her new peers a thing or two, as does her brother (John D’Leo). Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranos”) also appears. DVD extras: theatrical trailer; two “making-of” documentaries. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray) FAMILY VIEWING GUIDE KEY: AS, adult situations; N, nudity; P, profanity; V, violence; GV, particularly graphic violence.

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