[title of show], a Broadway musical about the making of a Broadway musical is everything a Broadway musical should be. Catchy songs, charismatic leads, snappy dialogue—it's all there. Except the show's aim is to make fun of the tried-and-true formula for a good Broadway musical by sticking to said formula—only in a funnier way.

You follow? It's easy-ish.

Hunter (played by Hunter Bell) and Jeff (played by Jeff Bowen) are two creatively stifled roommates who come up with the idea to enter a theater festival by writing an entirely original new Broadway musical in just three weeks. They are frustrated that most "original" Broadway musicals are actually based on movies, books, plays, an artists' body of work—something seen before. In other words, unoriginal. Therefore, they set out to create a new musical. They enlist the help of their two friends, Susan (Susan Blackwell) and Heidi (Heidi Blickenstaff), and get to work writing the dialogue and music for the show, which is well-received at the festival and then enjoys a successful run off-Broadway.

But after the off-Broadway run, no producers come forth to pony up the big bucks to bring the musical to Broadway, so the four are forced to go back to their mundane lives. But when Hunter uses YouTube to start a rumor that they are going to Broadway, the buzz becomes so big that they eventually do get there. Hooray!

The cleverness of [title of show] is multi-fold. First, it's written to appear live-action. For example, during a scene in which all four characters are talking, Hunter asks Susan why she's so quiet: "Because I didn't have a line written for me until just now," she replies. Second, as they follow the formula of a typical Broadway musical, the characters acknowledge that they are doing so. When Hunter and Jeff leave the stage, as principals often do at some point, Susan and Heidi discuss how they have the stage to themselves to steal the show as secondary characters, and jam out with a big musical number that showcases their incredible voices, as secondary characters often do, just before the big number that precedes intermission. Then the show goes into the big number that precedes intermission.

They also spare no expense in making fun of the Broadway establishment, including potshots at producers for bringing in B-list television actors as headliners, appealing to the lowest common denominator in humor, and the use of the same actresses (such as Sutton Foster, Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole and others) as the go-to leads for just about anything that requires song-and-dance.

[title of show] opened last night and is now playing at the Lyceum Theater in Manahattan. For anyone who loves a Broadway musical, or likes laughing, or wants to have a little fun at the establishment's expense, go and see this show before they replace any of the fabulous leads with someone who won Dancing with the Stars.