Shucked
Opening Night: April 4, 2023
Theater: Nederlander Theatre
Website: shuckedmusical.com
Shucked is a hilarious new musical fable about an unlikely hero, an unscrupulous con man, and an unforgettable battle for the heart and soil of a small town. Grammy Award winners Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, the biggest names in country music, now make their Broadway debut with a score as fresh and golden as, well corn itself! Together with a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn, and direction by Tony Award winner by Jack O’Brien, this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great music – and great musical theater.
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April 4, 2023
For more than two hours, it pelts you with piffle so egregious — not just puns but also dad jokes, double entendres and booby-trapped one-liners — that, forced into submission, you eventually give in.
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April 4, 2023
The riotous new work, with a book by Robert Horn, nabs acoustic inspiration from country music and tonal humor from shows like “The Book of Mormon” and “Tootsie” (the latter of which Horn adapted for stage) to form a delirious production that treats a seasonal crop — corn — more like the second coming.
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April 4, 2023
The jokes pop like corn on a cast-iron stove in the musical Shucked. They pour out in a ceaseless succession of happy little bursts, one after another—pop! pop!—to be buttered and salted by a game and endearing cast. Are those cobs in the actors’ pockets, or are they happy to see you? Both. And if a few kernels fail to inflate, they’re forgotten amid the bounty: Before you know it, you’re gorged to satisfaction on a big, tasty bag of Broadway puff.
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April 4, 2023
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.
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April 4, 2023
One could try to read into it as a parable of community, commitment, tolerance, and so on, but “Shucked” is really just a lightweight and laborious attempt at resurrecting old-fashioned musical comedy with a country flavor and corn as high as an elephant’s eye.
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April 4, 2023
The pleasure of watching Shucked is 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.
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April 4, 2023
The best way I can describe the musical Shucked is by paraphrasing the Roy Cohn character in Angels in America: “It’s about corn. Singing corn … You’ll love it!”
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April 4, 2023
Well, it is real. And, you know what, it’s real good too. If you’re fond of laughing, “Shucked” is the best new musical of the Broadway season so far.
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April 4, 2023
As the show suggests, aren’t we all kernels on the same cob? Chew on that question for a spell. But even if you’re not in the mood for some feel-good sentiment, as a laugh-out-loud crowd-pleaser, Shucked is a shucking good time.
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April 4, 2023
Shucked is about as quick and easy a good time can be had on Broadway: accessible, unpretentious and, I’ll be damned, a whole lot of fun.
READ THE REVIEWApril 4, 2023
Like an episode of “Hee Haw” written by Mel Brooks, the timely new musical “Shucked” opened Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre with more gags than every other current Broadway show put together.
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April 4, 2023
“Shucked,” that often funny and occasionally exhausting new musical, opened Tuesday at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.
READ THE REVIEWApril 4, 2023
Do I want to nibble on the starchy stuff for two hours—along with a tornado of dad jokes and an admittedly zesty country score? One pines for kale. Turns out you can have too much of a good grain.
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Credit the creative team for recognizing there’s more than a kernel of truth in the adage about knowing oneself. They are fully aware their show is wall-to-wall silliness, and they embrace that concept whole-hog. Even when the goings turn sappy, another pun, punchline, or double entendre awaits.
READ THE REVIEWApril 4, 2023
It’s too soon to tell if Shucked has staying power as a Broadway musical, but its refreshing embrace of diversity and unapologetically corny sincerity can definitely put a smile on your face.
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