Posted on 10/16/2019 1:43:31 PM PDT by Libloather
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David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s perplexing new musical “Soft Power” attempts to do three things at once: tell the real story of a 2015 stabbing attack on Hwang; do a “The King and I”-like turn that both romanticizes and criticizes a stereotypical America; and opine on the 2016 presidential election. There is an intermission, and the Public Theater has two bars. Start a tab.
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The first act of the dreamy show-within-a-show sees Clinton begging for votes, attempting to dazzle citizens and desperately trying to relate. That’s when she has that big production number at that ritziest of restaurants: McDonald’s. Hwang seems to say that classic American musicals spread falsehoods about foreign countries and get celebrated for it. “Soft Power” would be much better off if it homed in on those cultural slights, instead of tackling 1,000 other heady ideas.
During the second act, we learn it is the 50th anniversary of this 2016-election musical and that the US went to war with China under the president who defeated Clinton (Trump is never named). Dejected, Hillary turns to eating ice cream in her pajamas. She becomes romantically involved with Xūe Xíng, and we travel as far as the Oval Office, where a nameless vice president sings about how great guns are. By now, nothing makes sense and the tedium is off the charts.
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Sometimes I just like to sit out on my deck and watch it rain.
Three words that should never be in the same sentence together: Twerking Hillary Clinton(!!!!)
Gird your loins.
Hillary Clinton? Twerking? Doesn’t tht violate some sort of community standards law somewhere?
I would get more out of watching bowls of quivering jello set upon kinetic oscillating plates than watching a depiction of a twerking Hillary...
Wow talk about something that triggers motion sickness...
What did I just read?
Let it go and moveon.org. Maybe seek mind bleach.
“twerking Hillary Clinton”
There are some things that a normal person would not, could not imagine in a hundred years.
Dinner’s gonna wait now, Mr. Jack first needs to calm my nerves. Oh my...
Cankles was last seen in California. Could explain some rumblings...
Mrs. *Bubba Crinton has jazz hands in her Wonder Woman bra?
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