An unlikely hero, an unscrupulous con man, and a battle for the heart & soil of a small town.
SHUCKED is the Tony Award®-winning musical comedy The Wall Street Journal calls “flat out hilarious!” Featuring a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn (Tootsie), a score by the Grammy® Award-winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.
Shucked is a popcorn musical: lively, clunky, handsomely presented, good-natured, emotionally uninvolving, well-performed, overlong, heavily larded with jokes about penises and butts, occasionally quite witty yet frequently repeating aged gags from vaudeville and stand-up comedy. (‘Your horse came in at twenty to one.’ ‘Well, that’s pretty good!’ ‘The other horses came in at 12:30.’) I had a brainlessly good time I can scarcely remember two hours later, as I write this.”
What’s the funniest musical that you can think of? ‘Spamalot’? ‘Hairspray’? ‘Mean Girls’? All worthy contenders, for sure. Yet, I laughed harder — and certainly more often — during opening night of ‘Shucked’ at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco than I did while watching any of those other entirely worthy productions. There are 498,735 jokes (give or take) in this 2022 musical, which received nine nominations — including for Best Musical — at the 76th Tony Awards. And roughly 498,736 of jokes work (do the math and you’ll see what I did there) in ‘Shucked,’ which is making its West Coast debut at the Curran.
| 2023 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2024 | US Tour |
North American Tour US Tour |
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