What is so funny about New Jersey and green slime and toxic waste?
John: I like to think there is very little funny about toxic waste, especially when it is being poured willy nilly into rivers, marshes and dumps that are close to suburban homes. Now that said, it still makes for a very entertaining evening. How? Well, New Jersey is an underdog state and what red-blooded American theatergoer doesn’t like to root for the underdog? And green slime looks cool under the right kind of lighting. Both Joe DiPietro and David Bryan are born and bred New Jersey boys. I was born on Long Island but grew up in Houston. But I am taking my family this summer as I have for the past 12 summers to the Jersey Shore. Joel: What was the most difficult challenge in adapting Lloyd Kaufman’s 1985 film into a musical? John: I never saw the movie. I only watched it once 7 months after I started working on the musical. Joe had done a brilliant adaptation in that he took the movie’s few principle characters and then essentially wrote a completely new version. In fact the only th
