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.
Clark and McAnally’s score, while pleasant and energetic, (the searing power of “Independently Owned” aside), isn’t terribly memorable. Little matter. The cast is good enough to turn pleasant into outstanding. And the fast-flying lyrics are worth paying close attention to. In its titular number, “Shucked” covers 7,000 years of corn history, with a special shoutout to Columbus for bringing “syphilis and smallpox” to the New World and painter Norman Rockwell for featuring corn on many of his various canvases.
And while what grew may not go down in musical theater history as a revolutionary work, Shucked offers the Broadway equivalent of a solid popcorn flick: an escapist romp through a maze of love, laughs and corn."
| 2023 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2024 | US Tour |
North American Tour US Tour |
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