Rock Is Dead

A musical. Featuring Broadway versions of Night Ranger, Journey, Starship and Def Leppard songs. Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as the obligatory uptight, anti-rock crusader cliché and Tom Cruise method-acting his way into skin-tight leather pants to play a 70s-era rock god (for the glory of L. Ron).

Somebody please, for the love of all that's holy, stop the Glee-ification of American culture.

I would seriously rather have a screwdriver jammed into my brain through my ear, like Dennis Hopper's mad bomber did to that guard at the beginning of Speed, than sit through ten minutes of Rock of Ages.

Watch this if you dare.

The Good Book

If you've been lucky enough to see The Book of Mormon on Broadway, you'll be doing the Snoopy dance over this.

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To call it brilliant would be an insult to the word brilliant. How many musicals feature a song whose title translates into "Fuck You, God" as well as a running gag that involves a guy singing about how he has maggots in his scrotum?