'Shucked' Broadway Review: A Hilarious Corny Delight.
Shucked, a new musical comedy on Broadway, combines hayseed humor with urban camp and features a plot set in backwoods Corn Cob County of Red State America. Directed by Jack O’Brien and produced by Mike Bosner and Jason Owen, the musical follows locals devoted to their yellow husk-covered lifeblood. The show is a match made in some bizarro Broadway cornfield of dreams, and if the rapid-fire aw-shucked jokes elicit groans almost as often as laughs, the ratio can’t dampen the high spirits and goofy charm.