Jerry Springer the Opera

The trashy TV confessional format of The Jerry Springer Show gets the full operatic treatment, with guests belting arias about their infidelities, fetishes, and family feuds. In a shocking second act, Jerry descends to Hell and is forced to mediate between Satan and Jesus. Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee's audacious, profane, and surprisingly sophisticated musical satire uses opera's grandest traditions to illuminate humanity at its most base.