Chicago: just how bad were the Shaggs?(Front and Center)(The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World)
American Theatre, May, 2004 by Hickman, Christopher
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"IT stopped me cold in my tracks. My brain hurt. I had to turn it off after 10 minutes." Director John Langs is describing his initial response to the Shaggs' Philosophy of the World, an album so bad that Frank Zappa decided it was a work of genius; so musically primitive that the three sisters who recorded it in 1969--Helen, Betty and Dorothy Wiggin--have achieved a significant (if possibly ironic) following among avant-garde music enthusiasts.
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The Wiggin cult has now reached the theatre. The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, a musical biography of the sisters and ...
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