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Article: Jerry Springer musical to take city by storm Controversial show tipped to be a sell-out at King's
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- July 2, 2005
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THE controversial musical Jerry Springer - The Opera is coming to
Glasgow.
The hit stage show will open at the King's Theatre next March.
A spokesman for the theatre said: "This is a huge show that will
really grab the attention.
"We expect it to be a sellout."
Jerry Springer - The Opera is a parody of confessional TV shows.
It takes a series of outrageous confessions and mixes them with
music.
In the show - one of the most talked-about ever to hit London's
West End - God, Jesus, Satan and Adam and Eve are reduced to the
status of brief-time celebrities on television.
Reviews for the show, which has pastiche opera music running
through it, have been mostly positive.
However, those who have ...