If Off-Broadway’s ‘Teeth’ Threatens To Veer Into Preaching, the Musical Is Saved by Its Own Delicious Impudence
Based on the 2007 film, the show manages to reconcile the seriousness of its underlying message with flamboyant irreverence.

When “Teeth,” Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson’s musical adaptation of the 2007 film, premiered at Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, I made the prediction that, notwithstanding the considerable accomplishments of its creators — particularly Mr. Jackson, who won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize not long ago for “A Strange Loop” — we wouldn’t be seeing this show on Broadway any time soon.
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