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Hell, even Chuck Schumer, who rarely has the energy to do more than babble incoherently while sounding like a cicada, was semi-energetic on stage.

Hell, even Chuck Schumer, who rarely has the energy to do more than babble incoherently while sounding like a cicada, was semi-energetic on stage.

Then there was the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a winner for “Appropriate,” rocking a cicada brooch tie, a nod to one of the production’s creepy-crawly motifs.

“Most trees and shrubs will bounce back from cicada damage just fine,” he said.

In the lead up to this spring's dual-brood emergence, a flurry of cicada recipes, sweet treats and culinary odes have sung the bulky bugs' praises.