An eccentric outsider descends on a small town to head their local choir in a colorfully-untraditional direction during wartime.
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Damn Dirty
Primate lays bare its commercial calculus.
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Chamber Container
Conventional wisdom labels musicals as a large-stage art form.
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On Over
Llontop demands darting eyes.
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This Is How Your People Dance
For a variety of reasons, Princess Diana is a gay icon.
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Embodied
An actor’s natural physique obviously informs their performances.
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All Over
Simon Rich’s All franchise specializes in pulling a fast one on audiences.
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Everything is Staged
An initially-confounding staging choice can interpretatively convey a seemingly-essential message of the show.
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Cameoer
Has any other A-lister ever racked up as many cameos as Channing Tatum?
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Dazeem
Accusing the second half of a musical as being worse than the first is such a cliché that The Producers could satirize the sentiment with one of my favorite jokes in the show.
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