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Nobody just painstakingly recreates a community theater production from a cult-beloved TV show for no reason.

Out of all of the Gang’s many romantic advances throughout the history of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, one amorous moment stands out as the most moving and least felonious of the lot. Back in Season Four, one special, lovestruck and illiterate songbird named Charlie Kelly made the grandest of gestures in an attempt to win the hand of his longtime love and stalkee The Waitress as he staged an elaborate yet unintentionally nonconsensual musical called “The Nightman Cometh” with a surprise song and proposal at the end of the show.

Sadly, the spectacle of Charlie’s musical theater debut failed to woo his boo — but a recent regional theater revival of “The Nightman Cometh” just aced the assignment.

Sixteen years after “The Nightman Cometh” failed to convince The Waitress to wed her most devoted and attentive admirer,...

The musical episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" came from a pretty unexpected place. Widely regarded as one of the best episodes of the 16-season sitcom, "The Nightman Cometh" was such a hit the gang even performed the show live. The musical's unforgettable original songs were written over several stages, but the one that inspired the rest was "Dayman," the hero's theme, which was actually written for a different episode.

Charlie Day's character is the one to conceive of the musical on the show, and the actor was also the force behind the episode in real life. He was always interested in making a musical episode of the series, but his co-creators felt that they couldn't just make a musical for no reason — the character needed a clear motivation for writing and producing something of such great effort. No one on this show does anything without ulterior motives,...