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Bush Wars
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The press release for Bush Wars, the Help Is On The Way company's new musical at the Collective: Unconscious Theater, calls the show a "counterattack on what its creators view as the disgraceful agenda of the Bush administration," and right from the opening number the show delivers on its promise. The light goes on the college age George W. Bush, expertly played by Jason Levinson, doing a line of cocaine in his desk. Then an eager devil, played by Jay Falzone, who is also the co-director and choreographer of the show, prepares to suggest ways the young son of privilege can get out of going to Vietnam. He shows how to get deferment the way just like Dick Cheney did for five times. For this all he has to do is simply agree to do the devil's bidding and Dubya might even work his way to Presidency. Inspired and motivated by such temptations, Bush declares that he "wants a war" to finish what his father started. With one song and dance number with his potential middle-America constituents later the audiences is taken into the world of Bush Wars. Now the satire comes fast and furious, the jokes are preset for maximum laughter decidedly blue state audience.
The best part of the Bush Wars is the uniformly excellent cast. Andrea McCormick, Abigail Nessen and Chris Van Hoy join the aforementioned Levinson and Falzone in a series of energetic and well performed musical numbers. Their enthusiasm sometimes goes overboard, in specific, the singers' volume is five times louder than what is required according to the size of theater. The creator Falzone, writer Nancy Holson and the co-director Alex Rovang, the musical director ans pianist, all deserve the credit for getting the small cast to reach towards creating a lively production. The good part about the play is that it is full of energy, spirit and "intelligent design" in this production.
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Show Biography - Bush Wars
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 Halson, who is best known for her off-Broadway show The News in Revue which has successfully run in the number of cities and is presently a fixture at the Cranwell Resort, is clearly clever. Many musical numbers in Bush Wars reflect a grasp of both the political and theatrical spoof of conventions. The number "Terror at the Olive Garden", features Dubya and his mother Barbara dancing with Osama Bin Laden and his mother to the tunes of West Side Story's "America, displays the flashes " of this insight.
The problem of familiarity prevails throughout. Holson seems to be convincing atypical centrist American voters about the Bush administration, but she fails to do it by portraying such voters as ill-educated rubes with pitchforks as she does in "Evolution". Also her attempt as an ignorant religious ideologues as she does in the number twelve, which shoe Bush and Jesus do a little soft show routine while singing about being "bosom buddies". At times the musical succeeds in injecting some subtlety into diet of its existence. For instance there is an excellent "Red State Blues", where a singer begins the song, all dressed in blue and bemoaning the loss of liberal values in America. This is amusingly and systematically incorporated in costume, which happens o be the best design of the show, a feather boa and even lipstick to pure red by the end of the song. Not being the obvious or predictable target for attack, it proves to be funny and effective precisely.
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