Was just reading the NYT, and found a review of a new opera called "Jerry Springer" and it immediatly caught my attention. Here is a summary of the opera:
The first act, which depicts the taping of a fairly typical Jerry Springer episode (bisexual cheating fiancé, diaper fetishist, woman with strip-club dreams), surely has more obscenities per minute than any work that ever played Carnegie Hall. But it’s the second act, which takes Jerry straight to hell to arbitrate a debate between Jesus and the Devil, that has raised hackles high.
Well if that does not catch your attention nothing will. The interesting part is that according to the reviewer the show manages to be empathic and uses music inspired bot just by musicals but also by more classical operatic music. It seems like a real winner to me, we shall see if we ever get to see it in DC.
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