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‘Shucked’ review: Broadway’s best and funniest new musical

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“Shucked” is the best new musical of the Broadway season so far. The Southern comfort show, with a tuneful country score by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally and a superb book by Robert Horn, is just so damn funny.

If any of the outrageous yokel characters open their mouths to do anything but sing, 99% of the time they will deliver a winning joke or pun.

The receptive audience sits in a state of perpetual giggle, with heads bobbing up and down like buoys. An example of the sense of humor: A scamp named Peanut (Kevin Cahoon, brilliant) is a walking Poor Richard’s Almanac who colorfully announces his unhinged, universal truths as we howl back. “I think if you have time to jump in front of a bullet for someone,” he says to the group, “they have time to move.”But what is “Shucked”?

The premise is as zany as the zingers. The musical, at once traditional and cool, is set in fictional Corn Cob County, a small-town Southern oasis surrounded by corn that’s as high as an elephant’s eye.

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