Okay, so it's not a musical ... yet. It's just a song. But it's wild. And it's a good start. If Broadway can do the Book of Mormon, why not fracking?
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, has been following the issue of natural gas and hydrofracking -- a relatively new method of freeing the gas from tight geologic formations like the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania by injecting water deep into the ground under high pressure. The water also contains sand and a host of chemicals, some toxic.
What's it really all about? To help explain it in a way that would reach a new audience, they worked with David Holmes and other journalism students at Jay Rosen's NYU's Studio 20 to produce a music video.
It's called "My Water's on Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)"
They couldn't resist the cheap and easy lyric: "What the frack is going on with all this fracking going on." But that's okay. It's fun all the same and kind of catchy and even, yeah, informative.
Watch it below.