Musical the Musical

City Pages
Performing Arts
Review
by Coco Mault
August 6, 2008
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Musical the Musical Doug Neithercott and Hannah Kuhlmann have written a musical for people who hate musicals by thoroughly knocking some sense into the typical small-town-girl-moves-to-the-big-city story. That means seriously funny, inappropriate jokes, vivid sex talk, and an almost postmodern deconstruction of the musical form. When roommate Rasheda, played by Krystyn Spratt, has had enough of the overly cheerful opening song (called "The Opening Song"), she speaks for all of us when she stomps her platform shoe-clad foot and yells "Shut the fuck up!" She misbehaves quite a bit and, in the process, practically steals the show, along with a drag queen friend whose language is even more colorful than her clownlike makeup.

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