Obama Musical Set to Open in Germany

[HopeOverFear]

BERLIN – A musical about Barack Obama's "Yes we can" election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.

Even John McCain and Sarah Palin are given stage time, with actors portraying the losing Republican candidates and belting out songs on their behalf.

In all, 30 singers, actors and dancers are to perform in the musical "Hope — the Obama Musical Story" when it opens at the Jahrhunderthalle concert hall in Frankfurt in a bilingual mix of English and German. The audience may recognize that many songs quote from the politicians' stump speeches during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.

The venue for the premiere seems appropriate since the optimism of Obamania remains largely intact in Germany, about a year after Obama, an accomplished public speaker, became America's first black president. One campaign highlight was a July 2008 speech to some 200,000 people in the heart of Berlin about the world, the U.S. and its place in it.

[rebel with a cause]

1. I read this the other day was not brave enough to post it.

Chicken I am.

I found it interesting there have already been two others. One in Kenya and the other one in London. Oh well, (in my best English accent) those crazy yanks are an entertaining lot. ;)

[Clio the Leo]

3. ha ha, I was about to triple dog dare Hopey to post it in GD:P....

.... I would have included photos from the performance in my photo thread yesterday had the rest of the day's headlines not been significantly more serious.

[Cha]

2. Fun!!

Maybe it will be on DVD someday?

[Clio the Leo]

4. lol, lets hope not!

That looks too cheesy even for me!

[Arkana]

5. Please tell me they're calling it the "Obamusical".

[HopeOverFear]

6. lol that would be neat!

[Turborama]

7. I just posted a trailer for it in the political videos forum

I'm waiting to see what sort of reaction it gets... It had a 1 rec for a few minutes but it got wiped off quite quickly.

:hide: :yoiks:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x423361

On edit I only found out about this group after using DU's search engine to see if anyone elese had posted something about it. Seems like a fun place to hang out and avoid all the snarkyness. Since the beginning of this week I was considering leaving DU to try and find somewhere more hospitable or start my own blog. Now I've found this place I don't think I need to go looking for another forum but I'm still thinking about starting a blog.

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[lamp_shade]

8. Welcome to the BOG Turbo.