Article: The two Americas; Our country, great and ghastly: Little Sheba comes back, and Jerry Springer plays Carnegie Hall.(THEATER)(Come Back Little Sheba, Jerry Springer - The Opera)(Theater review)(Opera review)

IF JERRY SPRINGER--THE OPERA is headed to Broadway--and, after the million-watt rave it just got from the Times, it might as well be--the protesters outside will be as impassioned as anybody onstage. This time, I plan to join them. As the insulted faithful sing, pray, and denounce the show's many sacrileges (as they did in front of its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall), I will hold a candle in one hand and a portrait of Oscar Hammerstein in the other, and walk in slow circles wearing a sandwich board that says WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN NARRATIVE COHESION? on the front and REWRITES SAVE! on the back. Because once you get past the jolly fun of chicks with dicks and a ...

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