New York Mag parodies The New Yorker (or vice versa?) with its own double-bill review of “Xanadu” and “The/King/Operetta.” But Jeremy McCarter switches it up, slashing “Xanadu” with bits like this…
“It must have been budget constraints that kept Xanadu’s producers from adding the final, essential touch to its décor: a pair of twenty-foot-tall quotation marks, one on either side of the stage.”
And this…
“…Xanadu turns snarky, straining again and again for a clever way to undercut something, anything, everything—including itself, whenever a vaguely heartfelt or sincere moment seems about to occur. Is there a world record for longest continuously held smirk?”
And then praising “The/King/Operetta” for being “laugh-out-loud funny.” I’m sure that’s just how the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. would have imagined his posthumous hip-hop-eretta: laugh-out-loud funny.
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