It’s time to confess — I am a musical theater fanatic. I was raised on the classics: “Sound of Music,” “South Pacific” and “Camelot.” I grew up with “Rent” and, later, “The Last Five Years” and “Avenue Q.”
Most recently, “Spring Awakening” and — dare I say it? — “Legally Blonde: The Musical” have been in rotation on my mp3 player.
So when University Theatre’s “Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)” proclaims in the first number its intention to spoof Broadway’s most beloved composers, I know I am the perfect audience. I will get every joke, catch every reference.
….The problem? Hearing parodies of Rogers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kander and Ebb leaves me unfulfilled. I want to hear the real stuff.