What an interesting idea! You can read about this project in today’s Daily Progress, and here is a link to the student’s YouTube announcement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu4lZzppG4M
A cast and technical crew of 48 University of Virginia students will premiere at 8 tonight the first episode of “Musical: The Online Musical” — a project being billed as the first ever interactive online musical production.The students will write, rehearse, film and edit a five- to 10-minute episode of the musical each week and post it to YouTube, where viewers will be able to offer feedback and suggest new directions for the plot and charactervia UVa students launch first online, interactive musical | Daily Progress.