A review of the Tony Award-winning musical, praising its irreverent humor, profanity, and unique blend of satire and entertainment.
Unless you have an aunt named Mame, I wouldn’t translate “Hasa Diga Eebowai” for her. This peppy tune from oppressed Ugandan villagers shows up early in– Trey Stone, Matt Parker, and Robert Lopez’s multiple Tony Award-winning musical (2011) back in Houston thanks to Broadway at the Hobby. The song, like the show, is profane, terrifically un-PC, lewd, raucously funny, and unfit for your maiden aunt. It fits the musical like a bespoke glove, albeit one made of ordure. The number is one-of-a-kind.
The musical is one-of-a-kind. It is also glorious and not to be missed. Stone and Parker are responsible for the iconic, irrepressible animated series South Park, a gonad kick to television satire if ever there was one. Lopez wrote the subversive Avenue Q. Need I say more?Making fun of the Latter-day Saints is standard comedy fare, but this zany trio, abetted by lighting designer Brian MacDevitt, costumer Ann Roth, scenic designer Scott Pask, and whirligig choreography and whip-lash direction from original director Casey Nicholaw, is in a league of its own. The show holds no punches and throws them indiscriminately. Nothing is sacred – not AIDS, genital mutilation, poverty, dysentery, war lords, rape, religious fervor, or white boys acting foolishly. Everything gets screwed. If you’re prone to swoon at fucking frogs as a cure for AIDS, a kickline of clitorises and penises, an ultra-blond Jesus with a neon-edged robe, or fourth-grade bathroom humor, this is not the show for you. If you think of it as jacked-up Monty Python or an ultra-twisted Carol Burnett routine, then this show is right up your alley. Leave propriety behind and go for it. This irreverent musical – some might say blasphemous – never fails to entertain, even when you might gasp at those moments when you think, “How did they get away with that?” or “Is this allowed on stage?” No, standards haven’t falle
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