In the hilarious, joke-stuffed “Shucked,” a town faces a mysterious corn crop failure, while Alex Newell sings the first literally show-stopping belter of the Broadway season. Read TimTeeman's review:
The pleasure of watchingis not only that it’s very funny, it is also a musical comedy comfortable in its merry skin, thanks to Jack O’Brien’s equally mischievous direction, full of stop-starts, playing to the audience, and letting the jokes and reaction to the jokes breezily pace the show. The show’s witty advertising campaign—one commercial featured a quote ascribed to George Santos, “I saw it 300 times before it even opened!”—matches the end-goods in the best way.
Beau’s confidant, his brother Peanut, is played by Kevin Cahoon who relishes every ridiculous line he is given. Peanut is often asked for his thoughts, leading to such insights as: “I think if you can pick up your dog with one hand, you own a cat. I think people in China must wonder what to call their good plates.” Also: “I think when a movie says ‘based on a true story,’ it happened, but with uglier people.
Maizy naturally falls for this clearly awful, if hot, douche hard. When he figures out that the town is the site of precious rocks that could bail him out of a sticky situation with a mob boss, he decides to seduce Maizy and return to steal the rocks for his own ends.
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