Bush Wars- the musical revue

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You can't say you weren't warned. 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 from the opening number the show delivers on its promise.

http://www.curtainup.com/bushwars.html

The lights go up on a college-age George W. Bush (expertly played by Jason Levinson) doing a line of cocaine on his desk while an eager devil (played by the multitalented Jay Falzone, who also co-directed and choreographed the show) prepares to suggest ways the young son of privilege can get out of going to Vietnam -- . . like how to get a deferment the way Dick Cheney did. --"five times" The price is small--simply agree to do the devil's bidding, and Dubya might even work his way to the Presidency itself. Inspired, the younger Bush declares that he "wants a war" to finish what his dad started. One song-and-dance number with his potential middle-America constituents later and we're well into the world of Bush Wars, where the satire comes fast and furious and the jokes are preset for maximum laughter from a decidedly blue-state audience.