Obama the Musical?

I loathe musicals, always have, always will. But the musical Sister Toldjah is blogging about is something even the biggest musical fans can loathe!

Ready or not, here it comes:

Barack Obama and his dramatic ascent to power has inspired a raft of books and articles. Now a German musical is set to pay an all-singing, all-dancing tribute to the world’s most powerful man. Hope! will soon premiere in Frankfurt.

Wearing a knitted cardigan and crooning into his microphone, Barack Obama paces around the stage, wooing Michelle with a love song. In another number, now clad in a suit, Jimmie Wilson who plays Obama, struts up and down, clasping his mike and leading a euphoric gospel chorus of “Yes We Can.”

These two scenes are part of an unusual new musical called “Hope!” which is to premiere in Frankfurt on Jan. 17. The production, the biggest of its kind, is an all-singing and all-dancing take on the US president’s victorious campaign in 2008.

“I had the initial idea right at the start of Obama’s electoral campaign,” American writer and composer Randall Hutchins told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “I found the atmosphere exciting and that was my inspiration. People hoped change would result in a better life. It was a beautiful, very social time.”

You have got to be joking? What king of pathetic loser would actually indulge in such garbage? Well, besides, Andrew Sullivan, Charles Johnson, David Brooks, every anchor on MSNBS, and Oprah of course.

What is next? Olbermann: The Musical? Reid and Pelosi’s Icecapades? Bill Maher, the Douchebag World Tour? Jeneane Garafalo’s Skanktastical Tatoo Tour?