Britney bites back
“America has gone mad about vampires,” Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom complained to his “Art of Reading a Poem” seminar. As if to prove his point, “BITE ME BABY One More Time: Twilight: The Britney Musical,” premiered yesterday.
Three Yale sophomores wrote the play, which sets the popular saga of Bella and Edward to “Womanizer,” “Toxic” and the rest of Britney Spears’ greatest hits. “BITE ME BABY” satirizes both sources of its inspiration while staying very loyal to the plot of the “Twilight” book and film.
“Twilight” and Britney are a perfect match because...