TV Series Leaps To The Stage With Corn Puddin’ For Everyone

If you watched the TV series, you’ll recognize some of these moments – along with others such as the fan-favorite celebration of “Corn Puddin!” – but what you might miss is the inherent strangeness of seeing these fantasy worlds displayed within the hyper-real confines of a television screen. On stage, Josh and Melissa, our wanderers from the land of reality, are subsumed into an actual musical rather than a vaguely Truman Show-style refraction. Something’s lost in the translation, but with dazzling costumes, hyper-energetic singing and dancing and joyful spirit filling the Nederlander, quibbles end up banished beyond the flats.