All of This Year's Musicals Have the Same Plot

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Catch Me If You Can. A con man lies and wheedles his way around the country, but in the course of his unending fakeness, he elicits respect and some people find he's the realest thing they've ever met.

The Book of Mormon. Two missionaries lie and wheedle their way around Uganda, but in the course of their unending fakeness, they elicit respect and some people find they're the realest thing they've ever met.

How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (revival). A con man lies and wheedles his way around a corporation, but in the course of his unending fakeness, he elicits respect and some people find he's the realest thing they've ever met.

Sister Act. A singer hiding out in a convent and pretending to be one of them ends up eliciting respect, the nuns finding her the realest thing they've ever met.

Gosh, Broadway has range!

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elizabethcostello
elizabethcostello

That *Book of Mormon* play is seriously racist and colonialist, in the worst way!

dramamama
dramamama

What about: The Scottsboro Boys, Spiderman (no matter how awful), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Wonderland, Baby, It's You, Priscilla.....and a slew of others.

There really aren't that many plots in the world...everything is simply a variation. Get over it.

MSpeer
MSpeer

But wasn't Shirley Jones wonderful in The Music Man?

r0ckmypants
r0ckmypants

You listed four shows from a season in which more than three times that number of shows have opened. And you didn't even correctly identify the true plot of The Book of Mormon. Why? For a few chuckles? Stupid.

Fandango
Fandango

He's pointing out four musical shows about cons and deceptions (plus there's Anything Goes). I don't see anything witless about it.

Horsiese
Horsiese

I think the author is trying to employ wit. Hang on, let me ask my 12 year old nephew.

Adam
Adam

The Village Voice is a joke in the publication world

Ladybug
Ladybug

Anything Goes has con men too!!!!

Bwayjoe
Bwayjoe

Hilarious! You nailed it.

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