That Barack Obama surely can sing and dance
A musical about Barack Obama just premiered in Der Faderland this weekend. 30 German singers, actors and dancers will perform in the musical “Hope — the Obama Musical Story”. The songs, believe it or not, are based on quotes from speeches made during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.
We say this dog is destined to open and close in one night.
If the producers really want their musical to be a hit, we say rethink the whole thing. Make it more like Mamma Mia! and build it around new arrangements of old rock ‘n roll hits.
We’re talking gold, baby, gold.
So here’s IHateTheMedia.com’s idea of what would make a Hope: The Obama Musical Story a huge international hit.
The curtain goes up and Act I opens with candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail singing Hope, the Obama Musical Story’s signature medley, Frank Sinatra’s “High Hopes” and David Bowie’s “Changes.”
During an intimate dance at a glittering inaugural ball, Barack and Michelle reflect on how he got elected. The new President breaks into his own version of Living Colors’ “Cult of Personality.” “I exploit you, still you love me / I tell you one and one makes three / I’m the cult of personality.”
Vice President Joe Biden enters the Oval Office, begging President Obama to give him something important to do. His version of Silhouette’s “Get A Job” is the comedy highlight of the show.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel makes his grand entrance into Hope: The Obama Musical Story. He breaks into song to explain the new rules of the game to auto companies and banks by singing his version of After the Fire’s song “Der Kommissar”. “Don’t turn around, uh-oh / Der Kommissar’s in town, uh-oh / He’s got the power / And you’re so weak / And your frustration / Will not let you speak.”
Obama nominates repeated tax cheat Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury. After some witty dialogue, Geithner brings the audience to its feet with his rendition of the Beatles’ “Tax Man”.
Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar enters from stage left (stage extreme left, to be precise) and sings his version of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology).”
Act One closes and the first note of discord arises in the young Obama administration. West Virginia Democrat Senator Robert Byrd is wheeled into the Oval Office to discuss Obama’s plan to bankrupt the coal industry. He expresses his problem with Obama’s cap-and-trade policy by rising from his wheelchair to sing Lee Dorsey’s “Working In A Coal Mine.”
End of Act One.
20-minute Intermission.
As the curtain rises on Act II, we find a suddenly-graying President Obama on the golf course. As aides tell him his legislative agenda is bogging down, he delivers his show-stopping version of Todd Rundgren’s “I Don’t Want to Work, I Just Want to Bang On the Drum All Day.”
Soon America’s unemployment rates begin to skyrocket and eventually the citizens just stop looking for work. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis does her rendition of the old Gary “U.S.” Bonds hit “Out of Work.”
As time goes on, it becomes apparent to the masses that the fresh-faced President’s economic program is a dismal failure. The play’s Tea Bag Chorus swarms the stage and sings its re-do of Twister Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”
The polls turn on President Obama. The American people turn Democrats out of office. The chorus sings AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.”
Soon the harsh glare of reality sets in for the American people. Sarah Palin enters from stage right with her version of Cher’s “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.” She is accompanied by the Tea Bag Chorus Line in this musical condemnation of the entire Obama administration.
As his administration crumbles around him, Obama, The Musical ends on a melancholy note. In a moving duet, the young president and old friend Bill Ayers sing the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
End of Act II.
Final Curtain.
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Source: Associated Press via Yahoo
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{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
the show is HOT! the president is not=(
nice try Germany!!!!
What is that guy in the yellow shoes doing? Did the Polizei just roll up?
this could be an “unprecedented” happening in the world of the lively arts!
A theatrical production going straight to dvd!
God I love your version! I’d pay to see it! It is prophetic and that’s pretty damn rare in any musical. I wish we didn’t have to live it out in real life, but here we are!
For the curtain call, the chorus sings Mein Herr from Cabaret.
Mein Herr.
You’ll never turn the vinegar to jam,
Mein Herr.
So I do…
What I do…
When I’m through…
Then I’m through…
And I’m through…
Toodle-oo!
Bye-Bye, Mein Lieber Herr.
Farewell, mein Lieber Herr.
It was a fine affair,
But now it’s over.
And though I used to care,
I need the open air.
You’re better off without me,
Mein Herr.