Following a popular trend of emerging rock musicals on Broadway, Spumon partnered with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles to create an educational eighties rock musical that would give the audience traffic school credit for attending.

“Traffic School the Musical” was an eight-hour musical, performed in four, two-hour acts. However after the first week of previews, ninety percent of the students left at the first intermission. As a solution, Spumon ran the show straight for eight hours with no intermission and posted armed rent-a-cops at the doors to keep the students focused.

The opening number, “This Saturday is gonna suck” is perhaps the most quintessential DeCarlo tune, with his iconic and unconventional musical structure.

Instead of verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, Spumoni would often compose verse, chorus, chorus, chorus. Leaving the audience wishing there was a bridge, to jump off of.

New York Times drama critic Ben Brantley said said “Traffic School the Musical sacrifices itself, night after night and with considerable anguish, to make all other musicals on Broadway look good.”