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Article: `Jerry Springer Show' becomes opera
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2001
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`Jerry Springer Show' becomes opera
Comedian brings talk show, its host and lurid tales of dysfunction
to stage
By JULIANA KORANTENG
Hollywood Reporter
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Opera aficionados beware: A new figure has entered the landscape
of music's most refined genre, and he brings with him the stories of
trailer park tragedy and welfare woe.
Jerry Springer -- the former Cincinnati mayor who hosts a self-
titled talk show on which buxom women exchange violent blows over men
who prefer to sleep with transvestites -- is now the subject of an
opera, produced by one of Britain's fastest-rising comics.
"Jerry Springer: The Opera" features classically trained
professional singers performing ...