Wednesday, November 12, 2025

SHUCKED is the Tony Award®-winning musical comedy that The Wall Street Journal calls “flat out hilarious!” and it's coming to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Quinn VanAntwerp portrays Gordy in Shucked and joins Janeane LIVE on today's show!




WHAT THE SHUCK IS SHUCKED?

An unlikely hero,
an unscrupulous con man,
and a battle for the heart & soil of a small town.

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to today's show with Quinn VanAntwerp

SHUCKED is the Tony Award®-winning musical comedy The Wall Street Journal calls “flat out hilarious!” Featuring a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn (Tootsie), a score by the Grammy® Award-winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.




Quinn is thrilled to be back in the corn after having been an original cast member of Shucked on Broadway.

He is best known as the longest running Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys history with over 3000 performances with the Broadway, Touring, and Toronto Casts.

Other credits include the Broadway company of The Play That Goes Wrong.

TV/FILM: “Better Call Saul,” “The Affair,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Wife,” “FBI,” “I’m Dying Up Here,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,”


“Elementary,” “Shades of Blue,” “Nurse Jackie,” “The Following,” "Four Christmases" & "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

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