Springer success story continues
Award-winning musical Jerry Springer - The Opera is set to open on Broadway next year. BBC News Online analyses its phenomenal success.
Men in nappies and tap-dancing members of the Ku Klux Klan are just two of the delights awaiting anyone who sees the operatic version of the notorious US talk show.
Championed by the National Theatre's new artistic director Nicholas Hytner, the musical has become a cult sensation despite - or perhaps because of - a script containing more than 8,000 swear words.
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Based on Springer's lurid show, the musical represents a head-on collision between high art and trash culture.
Set during a typical Jerry Springer programme, the show features a generic line-up of unfortunates whose bizarre fixations and sexual fetishes are eagerly devoured by a baying studio audience.
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The production is scheduled to open in San Francisco for a six-week run before transferring to New York.
According to Matt Wolf, San Francisco is "probably the only other city in George Bush's America that's willing to listen to the sort of language the musical revels in".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3662889.stm
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