The stage production about the 42nd U.S. President will feature jokes about Monica Lewinsky scandal and Hillary Clinton's political career.
- Mar 28, 2015
AceShowbiz - "Clinton the Musical" is coming to New York as Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce her candidacy for 2016 presidential run. Coming from two Australian brothers, Paul and Michael Hodge, it will open off-Broadway at New World Stages on April 9.
According to the Associated Press, it features characters like Dick Morris, Newt Gingrich, Monica Lewinsky, and Clinton scandal prosecutor Kenneth Starr. It also has a dancing press corps and music that takes audience back to the 90's when Celine Dion, Hanson, and Spice Girls were on top.
Two different actors, Tom Galantich and Duke Lafoon, will play the former president; one a wholesome, intelligent Bill Clinton, and another a randy, rogue one. Tony nominee Kerry Butler is set to portray Hillary.
"The thing that endeared Bill Clinton and continues to endear him to the American public is that he was a very identifiable human being," said 27-year-old writer and composer Paul. "He was clearly human and he had flaws like everyone."
There will also be a lot of jokes about Hilary's political career. "That's part of the fun of doing something that's set in the past where people know what's going to happen in the future but the characters in the past don't know what's going to happen," Paul explained. "That's an opportunity for comedy."
The show first played at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012 and then at the New York Musical Theater Festival last year. Starr who sings "A Starr Is Born" and "Sexual Relations" in the play is expected to be one of the characters who will get deepened for the upcoming New York production. "There was not enough Ken Starr. You can never get enough Ken Starr," Paul joked.
