Mad Magazine has added a “Theatres of the Absurd” department to its table of contents for June. The feature is “Similarities & Differences Between the Spider-Man Musical and the War in Afghanistan.” Among the ten shared traits on the Mad checklist: “Millions of dollars blindly poured into it”; “Largely performed by disillusioned twentysomethings”; “A textbook case of American hubris”; and “Entire production very poorly choreographed.”
The two categories where Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and the Afghanistan war differ: “Will still be going strong in 2013” (no checkmark in that column for Spider-Man) and “Americans paying close attention to the endless debacle” (where Spidey is checked but Afghanistan ain’t).
The Spider-Man show also gets the honor (better than a T0ny!) of being featured in Al Jaffee’s Mad Fold-In.
And that’s not the only stage culture comedy in issue 509. There’s also “Mad’s 11 Little-Known, Practical, Real Life Uses for Ballet” and the terpsichorean TV parody Dancing With the Star Wars.
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