Last night I was lucky enough to check out The New World Stages production of The Toxic Avenger. I had a great time at the show. Toxic is campy, silly, naughty and fun.
The show is set in a just of the NJ Turnpike town that is being used by an evil Manhattan based corporation as a dumping ground for Toxic waste. Mervin Ferb III, a local science geek discovers that the corporation is in fact owned by the town's corrupt and ambitious mayor. She has some local buddies beat up Mervin as a warning to keep quiet but the overly drugged idiotic bullies accidently drop him into a vat of the waste and turn him into a "big green freak" of a mutant monster and promptly attack the love of Mervin's life, blind nobel and hot librarian Sarah. Hilarity ensues.
The Toxic Avenger is chock full of Jersey in-jokes, not least of which includes a Springsteen parody song and sequence entitled "The Legend of The Toxic Avenger."
If you can make it to The New World Stages you should check out the show, or any of their shows. They also have Altar Boyz which remains one of my favorite musicals ever. Anyway, it's a good strategy because as an off Broadway theater their ticket prices are much lower than Broadway ($55-85, verse $85-150) . If I had to give the show a movie rating it would be a Pg-13, just as a warning. But it's very very funny. Check it out!
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