Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is the Broadway musical that takes the audience to America's adolescence, when we were fighting with the parents and had just started being sexually active. Well, those are Benjamin Walker's thoughts, paraphrased at least. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a parody of American politics in the early 19th century with an emo-rock soundtrack. With songs like "Populism, Yea, Yea" the show sells Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson tickets to visit a caricature of the seventh American countries.
Utilizing Andrew Jackson's well-documented head strong ambition and at-times petty behavior, the musical makes a mockery of our own political history. Of course, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is as much an endearing look at our country in its youth. As the New York Times' Ben Brantley writes the show and the times are characterized by idealism, resentment, a lacking attention span, a sense of entitlement, and a real fear of being misunderstood. In short, the United States as a teenager.
