‘Agatha All Along’ Team on Reprising ‘The Witches Road’ as a Rock Ballad and Singing With Patti LuPone: ‘It Was So Intimidating’

variety.com:

SPOILER ALERT: This story mentions plot developments in Season 1, Episode 4 of “Agatha All Along,” currently streaming on Disney+.

Although “Agatha All Along” isn’t a musical per se, music serves as the show’s literal plot device, when the coven led by Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) sings “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” together in Episode 2 in order to conjure the titular mystical pathway, all in the hope of making their wishes come true.

The importance of “The Ballad” resonates throughout the show; each episode title comes from the song’s lyrics, and, as executive producer Mary Livanos explains to Variety, “the song will continue playing an incredibly significant role in the show.” Case in point, Episode 4.

Once they reach the road, the coven — comprised of Agatha, Teen (Joe Locke), Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone), Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata), and Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn) — face a series of life-or-death trials that test their witchcraft knowledge and skill, and in Episode 4, they’re forced to sing “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” again to free Alice from a curse that has had her family in its (quite literal) clutches for generations.