Weeks after making waves for his potential retirement, Aaron Rodgers is set to be traded to the New York Jets.
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Puns grow knee-high – and in bawdier moments a bit higher – in Shucked, the new musical comedy that combines the winking hayseed humor of Green Acres and Hee Haw with the decidedly urban, gently subversive camp that peppered the Off Broadway scene in the ’90s with kitschy fare like Ruthless!, The Real Live Brady Bunch and Theatre-A-Go!-Go!’s Valley of the Dolls parody.
The musical comes by its unlikely spiritual DNA honestly, or however it can, through the combined and disparate talents of book writer Robert Horn and composers Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
Consider that pedigree for a moment: Horn won a Tony for 2019’s Tootsie, and has written for Dame Edna, Designing Women, Bette Midler and RuPaul. Clark and McAnally have stacked up a big barnful of CMA Awards, Grammys and country music hits. Together this trio is a match made in some bizarro Broadway cornfield of dreams, and if the rapid-fire aw-shucked jokes elicit groans almost as often as laughs, the ratio can’t dampen the high spirits and goofy charm.
Directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray, Henry IV, The Coast of Utopia) and produced by Mike Bosner and Jason Owen, Shucked has a plot that pretty much says it all: Set in backwoods Corn Cob County of Red State America, the musical follows locals so devoted to their yellow husk-covered lifeblood that going without would be unthinkable. Like 19th Century Ireland without potatoes unthinkable. See where this is headed?
When some sort of blight causes corn kernels to shrivel and stalks to wither, a plucky bride-to-be named Maizy – she was named, naturally, after…her grandmother – determines to postpone the nuptials to her childhood beau (named, what else, Beau, played by Head Over Heels‘
Weeks after making waves for his potential retirement, Aaron Rodgers is set to be traded to the New York Jets.
Aaron Rodgers has been traded to the New York Jets, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jonathan Jones reports. In a move that seemed like it was a long time coming after Rodgers declared his intent was to play for the Jets, the deal is done.New York sent this year's pick No. 13, a 2023 second-round pick (No.
NFL MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been officially traded from the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets.
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Eight years is pretty close to eternity when it comes to sell-by dates for topical humor, which might be one reason that the jokes in Larissa FastHorse’s Broadway comedy The Thanksgiving Play fall flat as an underbaked pie. We can only surmise that when she first began writing this satire on Liberal guilt, woke sensitivities and Goopy indulgence back in 2015, words like “decoupling” and “soy milk” seemed like terrific punchlines.
Chicago, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera).It’s a bit premature to group Broadway’s newest musical comedy into any of these three categories, but it’s safe to say that it is harvesting a bonafide crowd-pleaser with Shucked (★★★★★).It’s not often that the Nashville and New York crowds intertwine with one another, particularly on creative projects. This exception, however, is a winning combination.Southern-bred and out country singer-songwriters Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally have joined forces with Northeast-based stage and screenwriter Robert Horn to create one of the funniest shows Broadway has seen in quite some time.Clark, an 11-time Grammy nominee and Country Music Award winner has written songs for Brandi Carlile, Alicia Keys, and Kacey Musgraves.
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Judges in the New York Court Of Appeals seemed to be erring towards classifying producer Dr Luke as a public figure at a hearing yesterday, which would have a big impact on his ongoing defamation lawsuit against Kesha. Though his lawyer urged the judges not to equate having a profile within the music industry with being a public figure.Luke’s defamation lawsuit against Kesha is all that remains of what began as a multi-layered multi-state legal battle which was kickstarted when Kesha accused Luke of rape.
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Coachella, Jai Paul has announced new headline shows in London and New York.At the weekend, the elusive British songwriter played his first ever live show at the California festival, ten years after the leaking of his unofficial debut album.During the show on Saturday (April 15), Paul played highlights from ‘Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)’, alongside 2019 singles ‘Do You Love Her Now’ and ‘He’. He also debuted a brand new track called ‘So Long’.Next week, he will bring his live show to New York, playing two shows at the Knockdown Center in Queens on April 25 and 26.In early May (9-10), he will then make his bow in London, playing a pair of gigs at HERE @ Outernet.Tickets are available via ballot here, with New York sign-up available from 10pm EST on Wednesday, April 19 and London live from 10am BST on Wednesday, May 3..@jai_paul live in London and New York.New York: 25th + 26th April London: 9th + 10th May Tickets available by ballot only for a chance to purchase.
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