With three new musicals, Washington reemerges as major Broadway tryout town

“The opportunity to do it at the Anthem — it just seemed so perfect,” said Tim Forbes, a producer who has been involved in “KPOP” since its inception at Ars Nova, and its development by the Woodshed Collective, an immersive New York theater company. The musical is undergoing some restaging, as the original production was on two floors, with audience members divided into groups and moving through the space. The Broadway-bound version is being redesigned, its producers said, with the ¾ -round Circle in the Square Theatre in mind.