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The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at 'woke culture' — but is it funny?

JL;DR SUMMARY An innovative but controversial production, "Slam Frank," by Andrew Fox, explores the boundaries of satire by reimagining Anne Frank as a Latinx pansexual character named Anita. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismAnne FrankJewish StereotypesDiversityIdentity PoliticsCultural CritiqueSatireHumorWoke CultureMusical Theater

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Farmingdale, New York, United States
"Then theres culturally intimate humor which SUNY Farmingdale professor Evan S. Cooper defined in his dissertation I dont get It?: Culturally Intimate Humor and Its Audiences, as a familiar use of culturally specific stereotypes in a positive manner."

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