Jerry Springer - The Opera

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01/30/2008

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Jerry Springer -- the Opera

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Reviewed By: Brian Scott Lipton · Jan 30, 2008  · New York

Shocking. Exciting. Tasteless. Repetitive. Blasphemous. Exhilarating. A collection of adjectives -- admittedly sometimes contradictory ones -- is the simplest way to describe Jerry Springer - the Opera, which is getting its belated New York premiere via Jason Moore's first-rate (and sadly, two-night) concert staging at Carnegie Hall. What's most remarkable about Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas' "opera" -- I'm more tempted just to call it a musical -- is how much of what shouldn't work in the first act actually does. And if the second act's ambition can't quite match its execution, the overall experience remains one of the most original pieces of theater I've seen in a very long time.