Jersey Shore: The Musical
As if seeing the cast of Jersey Shore once a week on the small screen wasn’t delightful enough, now you can see them live and on stage! Well, kind of.
Playwrights/geniuses Daniel Franzese and Hanna LoPatin are capitalizing on the enormous success of the GTL-ing franchise by writing and staring in their own, satirical adaptation of the MTV reality hit.
They call it: Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin’ Rock Opera.
It’s like the Reality TV Gods can read my mind!
The show has been received to critical acclaim, winning the ensemble award at the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival and booking six additional performances at the festival’s encore series. But Franzese and LoPatin, who star as the star-crossed lovers, Ronnie and Sammi, respectively, can’t take all the credit for the show’s surprising success.
The cast, which features Max Crumm, as Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino serenading his own reflection with a power ballad love song and Karen Diconcetto, who plays Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, crooning over a jar of pickles about wanting, “a gorilla juicehead to love me forever.” shines brighter than any star on Broadway.
But the pin in the grenade? (That’s Shore talk for “the icing on the cake”.) A dude plays JWoww.
Somebody get Neil Patrick Harris on the phone! We need a Tony nod over here!
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