Anti-opera Review: 'Jerry Springer: The Opera'

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Mark Swed

CALIFORNIA - “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” which won the 2004 Olivier Award in London for best new musical and which opened Saturday night at the Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills, is hardly an opera, but neither is it a musical. It is something new. It is a religious operetta posing as anti-opera, silly words and music working hand in hand in pseudo-sacrilege. A parody of a panoply of biblical figures, the show is clearly blasphemous. But it does not commit blasphemy. There is a difference. Springerian salvation is not out of the question. [link]

"Jerry Springer: The Opera." Chance Theater, 5552 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim Hills. Through August 7. (714) 777-3033 or http://www.chancetheater.com/.