Entertainment

See silly musical with glee

If you can’t get enough of high school glee clubs, “Perfect Harmony” is the show for you. This silly musical about dueling a cappella groups at a New England prep school makes “Glee” look like heavy drama.

The show depicts the heated competition between the male, 17-time national champions the Acafellas and their less-celebrated female counterparts, the Ladies in Red.

Both groups are vying for the honor of being showcased on MTV. Well, MTV 3.

The groups frantically rehearse their unique versions of “Eye of the Tiger” and Rihanna’s “Umbrella” amid endless snafus, including defections, disputes over choreography and costuming, romantic entanglements and a failed urine test.

“How much pee did you have to make?” one student asks.

Chock-full of quirky characters, absurd plot developments and a cameo by Jesus, in tighty whities, “Perfect Harmony” — conceived and directed by Andrew Grosso and written by him with the acting troupe the Essentials — is best for those who appreciate a heavy dose of camp.

While some of the lines are amusing — “Parents love a cappella,” one girl says, “It’s like a guarantee you won’t get knocked up” — it’s the energetic vocals that soar.

It’s hard to resist a show in which a boy exhorts his partners, “All right, dudes, sing it from your nuts!” before launching into a spirited rendition of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”