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123 – Something Like Summer

The Summer of Unhinged Musicals continues with perhaps one of the most unhinged movies we have ever covered, period. For your pleasure (?), we present 2017’s Something Like Summer, an adaptation of a self-published absurdly long young adult novel that was for some improbable reason turned into an absurdly long movie musical. Blurbs really can’t do this one justice, but suffice to say there’s a lot of gay angst, a lot of questionable creative choices, and a lot of mind-numbingly bizarre plot points. Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they team up yet again with past guest Faith to just tackle this mess beat-by-beat. And yes, we’re all a little surprised that this is our longest episode ever too, but there’s just an unending river of insanity to cover here. Naturally, such a movie necessitates both a cocktail AND baked goods, so we really are covering all our bases here.

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122.5 – Jukebox Musical Jumble

As the year rolls swelteringly along, so does our Summer of Unhinged Musicals, and what better way commemorate this year’s miniseries than with yet another game (but one that relates to the theme)? Brendan dusts off an old chestnut from a while back where he posits a musical title and description and Leigh and Chris have to determine whether said musical is real or fake, but THIS time it’s exclusively jukebox musicals, the bane of the serious theater aficionado! Do you know enough about jukebox musicals to know if there’s one based on Enya songs? Or one based on the non-McCartney songs written by John Lennon? Heck, maybe some of these fake ones are actually seemingly more produceable than some of the real nonsense! Fittingly we also introduce next episode’s drink and unhinged movie musical topic (and boy is it a particularly bizarre one).

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