After an a-maize-ing debut on Broadway and a sell-out American tour, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Shucked has landed in the UK for a strictly limited five-week run at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. With a book by Tony winner Robert Horn and songs by Nashville powerhouses Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, all under the direction of Tony-winning legend Jack O'Brien (Hairspray), Shucked promises a kernel of joy in divisive times.

Blending folksy storytelling, toe-tapping tunes, and enough corny jokes to fill a silo, Shucked follows Maizy, a plucky young woman from Cob County, who ventures beyond the cornfields when a mysterious blight threatens her hometown's future. But what starts as a quest for agricultural salvation soon takes an unexpected - and heartwarming - turn.

Now that Shucked has sprouted on British soil, let's look at what critics say about this big-hearted, laugh-out-loud musical!

Shucked Critic Reviews

"Shucked, which opened on Broadway two years ago, delivers a hilarious opening shot in Drew McOnie's inaugural season as artistic director. It delivers a diet of puns clever, raunchy and sometimes knowingly cheap." - The Times

"Summer may not have fully arrived for the start of the Open Air theatre's season, but this Tony award-winning musical comedy delivers a burst of nourishing, laugh-out-loud sunshine." - The Evening Standard

"This could be the next Book of Mormon." - The Telegraph

"It's Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally's songs that often blow you away: hoedowns, lonesome ballads, stagecoach rhythms, loud and proud show tunes, with a five-piece band heavy on the guitars and giving a percussive boost to the humour." - The Guardian

"What really do translate are the songs, which are unabashedly gorgeous... Georgina Onuorah is a standout as Lulu, her beautifully voiced rendition of "Independently Owned" airing any number of Nineties pop feminist tropes and making them feel fresh." - The Independent

"In general I think it could be spikier, darker and more satirical, but presumably Horn simply isn't into that. Still: Shucked is very, very funny." - TimeOut

"It's a show that revels in its corniness. This loveably loopy musical, winner of multiple Tony awards after opening on Broadway in 2023, sees every objection coming and shoots them down with cheeky alacrity by relentlessly sending itself up." - The Stage