Conventional wisdom says there’s one surefire sign that a musical has a fire score:
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Dodo as a Dodo
When I buy a ticket for a puppet show, I expect the smaller scale, DIY theater that exists in the realm of the handheld.
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What Reigns
Staged chaos is an oxymoron in terms.
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Open Clarification
The Dan Daw Show’s open captions alter how we process sequences designed to seem potentially off-script.
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Voyage
Watching The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] can feel like a crazy-making experience, befitting a play about a man driven to-infinity-and-beyond his wits’ end.
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DIY
It’s always a gas to track overlaps between Under the Radar productions.
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Wait What’s Wet?
Teeth’s songs skip the typical foreplay of showtunes, opting instead to immediately begin with lyrical shocks to the system.
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Until the Wheels Fall Off
On the stereotypical spectrum of high-school cliques, the jocks would be at one end, and the theater kids would be on the very opposite other side.
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Under the Fan
Read no further unless you saw Shit. Meet. Fan. at MCC.
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With A Quickness
This season’s revivals of Our Town and King Lear cut swaths from their original texts in order to emphasize a shared theme.
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Write All Nite 