the rock/disco musical The Apple

It boggles our minds that Xanadu is currently getting the high-profile off-Broadway revisit treatment rather than The Apple, for The Apple is ten times guadier, and a gazillion times stranger. Set in the "near future" of 1994, this absurd-o Biblical allegory concerns the perils of young Canadian couple of Alphine and Bibi, who enter a Eurovision-like global music contest and are discovered by the malicious Mr.Boogalow, the Satanical manager of The BIM (an all-powerful fascistic funk band), who exploits for his own ungodly gain. If that already sounds like a hoot, toss into the mix gay henchmen, bad accents, chorus-girl fire squads, circus acts, disco odes to amphetamines, hippies, sequined jock straps, kvetching yentas, cl;othed orgies, Carpenters rop-offs, flying Cadillacs, and a jivin'' production numbers set in the depths of Hell -- all brought to you by director Menahem Golan, also responsible for Over The Top and The Delta Force!

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