Slam Frank tickets

A hilarious show that feels like a South Park episode

The production starts off as satire allowing us all to laugh at ourselves and modern day political correctness. Then opens positively beginning with a fun, inventive and smart premise. Then transitions into revisionist history. The appropriates and pokes fun at Jewish trauma. Then changes the rules of the already-established rules of the musical and says you can’t laugh at ourselves nor modern- day political correctness after all. Then says that Anne Frank had privilege because she’s white. Then exposes Anne Frank and her diary as capitalist greed that could have only been though up by the Jews. Then morphs into an LGBTQI+ rave party minus foam and cocktails. Then has a beautiful message about immigrants plight but is challenged because men run the world. Then shows Anne’s sister Margot being the only character who is silently connecting to her Jewish life- maybe? Then goes back to revisionist history with dash of erasure while Anne comes out as pansexual. Anne says F this and listens to her abuela about not forgetting where she comes from and makes the connection of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are the Jews in thier own holocaust from the United States or Germany. Then everyone talks about what the want to do and where they want to go after the war. Then the musical turns into 100% anti Zionist propaganda while the actors put on hook noses and curvature postures of greed, blood thirsty and greedy humans. (This is where the musical stopped working because it lost its intelligence and transitioned to arrogance.) The Anne Frank sacrifices herself to the Germans to save Palestinians. All the artists are immensely talented. But the achilles heel of the piece is that the creative team appeares to believe the they are the most talented and important and theatre-changing and inventive. However they come off remarkably as the epitome of privilege and unfortunately uneducated. What the piece does well is get people talking. What the piece does well also is perpetuate hostile point of views of American and global Jews. What the piece does well is excite a d divide audiences. What the piece does well is get a younger generation people into the theatre. What the piece does well is spit on Jewish life. Again, this is just one person’s opinion. Oh, also my husband’s opinion. So two people.

Extremely impactful and relevant show which certainly takes a point of view in current climate.