‘Dicks: The Musical’ Creator-Stars Talk Megan Thee Stallion’s Show-Stopping Number and Whether Their Songs Out-Profane ‘Book of Mormon’

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The most appreciative audience for “Dicks: The Musical” may be the Venn-diagram overlap between viewers who think the envelope for raunchy language in R-rated comedies doesn’t get pushed nearly hard enough and people who saw “Les Miserables” on Broadway three times.

In other words, the warning not for every taste has never applied more. But the movie musical will hit an especially sweet spot for folks who want filth and subversion with their show tunes, and who like to hear the classic tropes of musical theater being embraced even as they’re being thoroughly upended.

The weekend box office indicates that “Dicks” is quickly finding that audience, with Variety’s report saying the outrageous film “was a bright spot at the specialty box office, generating one of the best limited openings of the year.” (The A24 pic generated a very solid $220,867 from just seven screens in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in its opening frame, on its way to further expansion next weekend and a nationwide opening following on Oct.

20.) In the meantime, a full soundtrack album came out Friday, for anyone wanting a pre-filmgoing sample of musical numbers sung by cast members like Nathan Lane, Megan Mulally and Megan Thee Stallion. (The latter rapper may actually have one of the less profane songs in the score, though that’s all relative here.) Besides assuming the lead roles, creators Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson co-wrote the dozen songs that fill the movie, along with longtime cohort Karl Saint Lucy and legendary producer Marius de Vries.