"Twilight: The Musical" is in the works, and it's pretty freaking great. How do I know? My girlfriend and I were two of the lucky people who got to see the one-night-only "concert reading" of the show.

"Concert reading"? Yeah, I was worried going in, and to fortify myself I chugged a couple $4 sangrias at the New World Stages bar. For any of you with theater-geek friends, you understand my hesitation. The only thing worse than getting roped into attending a horrible play is sitting through a horrible reading of a horrible play. You can't even be proud of the performers for memorizing their lines, yet.

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On top of that, I wouldn't classify myself as a musicals fan. I've definitely seen some that I loved: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "Avenue Q" and "Rent," and I expect to enjoy "The Book of Mormon" when I can finally afford it. Yet, when visitors stay with me and want to see a Broadway show, I always say, "My girlfriend Annie will take you. She loves musicals."

Upon entering the theater, we found flannel-clad girls acting as Bella ushers. Cute, right? No. They weren't actually ushers, they were "instigators" who were dramatically trying to convince audience members to cheer for Team Jacob or Team Edward and growl or howl. I felt like I was trapped in high school drama again with the attention-starved, ADHD girls who only got louder and dyed their hair crazier colors the more you ignored them.

As I resolved to leave at intermission, Annie read the playbill and said, "Hey, there are some real actors in this." Playing Bella is Meghann Fahy, who did 81 episodes of "One Life To Live" and the Broadway show "Next To Normal." There is even a Tumblr fan page for her. Colin Hanlon, who has guest-starred on "Modern Family" and appeared in "Rent" on Broadway, plays Edward. I'm not sure why a soap opera role and a bit part in a sitcom made me feel better, but they did.

Before the show, the director or producer -- I'm not sure, he was an older man with his gray hair in a ponytail, which made him a theater authority figure -- stood up to explain that they'd just finished, and that they'd only been rehearsing over the last 24 hours. That wasn't very assuring, but the vibe in the sold-out theater was still one of excitement.  Mr. Ponytail didn't say when or if "Twilight: The Musical" will have a run, but definitely made it seem like there are future plans.

It turned out that a "concert reading" is like a normal script reading, but with music, singing and dancing. Eight actors played all of the roles and seemed very well cast. Didn't seem to be a weak link among them. I especially liked Lauren Lopez, who did a great job of switching between the characters Alice, Jessica, Renesmee and Jane.

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The show is marketed as a spoof of Stephenie Meyer's story, but not like "Vampires Suck" or the dozens of YouTube parodies. It's apparent the writer, Ashley Griffin, is well versed in the "Twilight" world. She pokes fun at the things Twi-hards already joke about, but doesn't mock the audience for like the books and movies (except some at the end, which I'll get to). As this was just a preview, the script seemed disjointed, and so I'll finish this review with my disjointed impressions from the night.

* When Jared Zirilli, who plays Jacob, takes his shirt off, you will feel inadequate about your body, no matter how fit you think you are.

* The first act pretty much covers the first book, while the second half speeds through the final three.

* Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron are substituted for James, Victoria and Laurent as the main villains, which seems oddly appropriate.

*The Volturi are played by the orchestra.

*While the script still needs tweaking, the songs are really strong and very funny. My favorite is "I Imprinted on an Infant," sung by Jacob and Renesmee, who keeps lifting up her skirt to show a diaper.

*In interviews, creator Ashley Griffin has said she thought of the musical while reading "Twilight" and the book "Counterfeit Gods," which is about the culture of obsession. Unfortunately, she really tries to shoehorn in the obsession commentary at the end -- making the last part seem oddly pro-Harry Potter. It doesn't ruin it, but left me feeling oddly off-kilter.

* I'd still recommend this to any fan of "Twilight" and/or musicals in general.

Confessions of a (Male) Twi-Hard is a “Twilight” humor column by Ryan McKee that publishes every other week on NextMovie. Read Ryan’s introductory post here and follow him on Twitter.