The Southern comfort show is filled with winning jokes and puns.
The characters of the Broadway musical"Shucked" are shaken up when their corn crop starts to suddenly die off.For I have finally seen the new musical that popped open Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre.
An example of the sense of humor: A scamp named Peanut is a walking Poor Richard’s Almanac who colorfully announces his unhinged, universal truths as we howl back. “I think if you have time to jump in front of a bullet for someone,” he says to the group, “they have time to move.” But Gordy is secretly a sleazy fraud, who both swindles and romances wide-eyed Maizy in the style of Harold Hill from “The Music Man” or Bill Starbuck in “The Rainmaker.” Uh oh, she also happens to be engaged to a lanky farmer back home named Beau .
Innerbichler’s Maizy is comparably guileless to in-your-face Lulu, but her take is nonetheless unique. If Broadway is known as a home to Disney princesses, this actress has more in common with a heroine from a smarter Pixar movie. And as her Beau is Durand, whose appealing strangeness and stellar pop voice finally get a deserving vehicle.
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