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liminalRapture -> Jerry Springer, The Opera! (11/30/2007 8:39:23 AM)
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After a long, long wait, Jerry Springer, The Opera is coming to the colonies, Carnegie Hall for 2 nights only, January 29th and 30th, starring Harvey Keitel as Jerry (a non-singing part). (I'm not in any way involved with the show--I saw in once at the National Theatre and fell it love with it.)
If you like musicals, opera, Jerry Springer, or the biggest mindfuck about highbrow art vs. lowbrow art you'll ever see (or you want to be in the center of what might be a pretty big culture war protest), you should get tickets.
It is the only time you're going to hear "Mama Give Me Smack on the Asshole" at Carnegie Hall. Or a man who is the highest soprano you've ever heard, do an "I'm a Man" aria in notes I could never hit.
It is deeply offensive to everyone, so don't go if you don't have a sense of humor. Youtube some video clips before you buy tickets. Be forewarned, the YouTube clips are all from act 1. Act 2 is the most blasphemous thing you will probably ever see. It incited American-style Christian-right protests in London, which rarely has such things. The strength of those protests scared the American producers, who cancelled a Braodway run.
But it is hilarious and occasionally brilliant.
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