Somebody (i.e. entertainment website Polygon) once told me (i.e. reported publicly on Friday) that the musical stylings of the late ’90s-borne power pop band Smash Mouth could soon find a home in the bosom of the Broadway stage. The natural next step after running amok through the turn-of-the-century Bar Mitzvah circuit, scoring the opening scene of Shrek, and then just spending approximately two decades being in everyone’s head five times a year, Smash Mouth’s career-defining hit “All Star” will be the headlining number in a new jukebox stage musical written by Allison Frasca and officially sanctioned by the band.And when I say “headlining,” I mean “only.” While the estimably titled All Star: The Best Broadway Musical is a bona fide four-act production boasting a full course of sung numbers, they will in fact all be different renditions of “All Star.”
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