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Article: British opera based on outlandish `Jerry Springer' show a success.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- April 25, 2003
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Byline: Fawn Vrazo
LONDON _ The first hint that this is not your usual opera comes long before the diaper-clad fat guy sings, before the line of Ku Klux Klan members does a snappy dance in white robes and masks, before the chorus trills, "My mom used to be my dad!"
The production's very name suggests that something extraordinary is about to unfold on one of London's premier stages:
"Jerry Springer _ the Opera."
If your reaction is "What!?" you aren't alone.
Springer's television show, as the world knows, is about people so desperate to get on TV that they'll bare the sleaziest secrets of their lives, like, say, the fact that a ...