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Article: Singing and Zinging; 'Jerry Springer' as Satire Is Wickedly Entertaining
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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How low can you sink and still achieve nirvana? You can find the
answer in "Jerry Springer: The Opera," which, in Studio Theatre's
thrillingly down-and-dirty production, brings an audience to
something like a state of musical-theater bliss.
The show, directed with a no-holds-barred sense of wickedness by
Keith Alan Baker with an assist from Matthew Gardiner, is, as
billed, "The Jerry Springer Show" set to ornate dirges, hymns and
recitative. But while the long-running TV program regularly exploits
the weaknesses of the exhibitionists and voyeurs among us, the go-
for-broke parody does television one better. It takes the restraints
off whatever meager amount of modesty the FCC requires and ...
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