Paige Eight Blog

         Corn. Yes, I said and I’m talking corn, as that’s what the hit comedy   Shucked  that has just planted itself here in the Midwest is chock full of in every sense. Direct from its acclaimed Broadway run, this musical enraptures audiences with the story of what happens to the unspoiled slice of Americana that is Cob County upon facing its first-ever crisis when their corn inexplicably starts perishing; and heroine Maizy decides to be the first to leave the provincial paradise in search of a way to save the vegetation. The shenanigans and fallout that ensue supply ample amusement and inspire as much growth in Maizy, her cousin Lulu, Beau and his brother Peanut, and all the rest of the Cob County crew as it does the corn crop and the theatergoers’ whose lives this “barn yarn” touches. It may be a superior horse sense of humor, it may be fearlessness in creating something so distinct from what commercial theatre has traditionally churned, it m...