Like an episode of “Hee Haw” written by Mel Brooks, the timely new musical “Shucked” opened Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre with more gags than every other current Broadway show put together.
“The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye" - so goes the well-known lyric from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!,” which opened on Broadway exactly 80
Puns grow knee-high - and in bawdier moments a bit higher - in Shucked, the new musical comedy that combines the winking hayseed humor of Green Acres and Hee Haw with the decidedly urban, gently subversive camp that peppered the Off Broadway scene in the '90s with kitschy fare like Ruthle.