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February 8, 2012
Obama musical to premiere in Frankfurt
Published: 13 Jan 10 08:07 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100113-24531.html
Barack Obama has been serenaded by stars like Aretha Franklin and Beyonce, now he'll sing himself in a new musical set to open Sunday in Frankfurt - where many consider the US president a role model.
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The stage Obama will perform a duet with First Lady Michelle and lead a gospel chorus singing "Yes, We Can," his trademark slogan of optimism and change, in a bi-lingual production entitled "Hope - The Obama Musical Story."
Producers said they hope to take the show to the United States.
"I had the initial idea right at the start of Obama's electoral campaign," US writer and composer Randall Hutchins told the online edition of German magazine Der Spiegel. "I found the atmosphere exciting and that was my inspiration. People hoped change would result in a better life. It was a beautiful, very social time."
Although Obama's domestic approval ratings have fallen, the US president remains popular in Germany where a November poll found 44 percent named him as their political role model, well ahead of former chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
With a predominantly US cast, the show is said to celebrate a non-political quest for a better future. Plans are being laid to take it to other cities around Germany.
During the show, Obama's Republican presidential rival Senator John McCain and his colourful running mate Sarah Palin perform numbers of their own, the latter rocking with fishnet-clad go-go girls.
Even the audience will get a chance to join in, organisers said, with seats equipped with a percussion-sensitive surface that lets them drum along with the beat.
"If everything works fine, we would like to plan a tour in the States as well," organiser Patrick Strese told AFP.
AFP (news@thelocal.de)
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Good Luck with that! He is the least popular 1st year president in history.
I will be amazed if he wins a second term. Sorry, Germans. Don't cry, Alemana, maybe he could be your next Chancellor! He'll most likely be unemployed as of 2012!
This Hutchins fellow who wrote and composed this work of art is from Mich.USA not Germany. Believe it or not many Americans think of Obama as some sort of Christlike figure. Not as many now as a year ago however.
Now, it's clear that neither the President nor the Congress is powerful enough to rein in banks, big corporations, or their ownership of government and their abuse of taxpayers. Those entities actually write the legislation that governs them.
And, the only narrow sliver that Obama could take on, Big Insurance, has leveled a billion dollar campaign to malign him 24/7 on Fox News and talk radio. In the US, there is no longer independent or liberal media. If Americans want an objective point of view, they have to listen to the BBC or read other non-US media.
Way to stay on topic. America's entire media except for Fox news is "liberal". Please do not mention things you don't fully comprehend.
It would be helpful if you would finish high school before attempting to write here. Please don't mention things you're not qualified to address.
If you read others' comments, you would see that I was staying on topic by addressing issues they brought up or alluded to.
Fox is NOT conservative. It's off the charts crazy. Only a very stupid, malcontented, racist demographic even pay attention to it. You're probably one of them. Limbaugh and Palin? I rest my case.
"Please don't mention things you're not qualified to address." Pot, meet Kettle.
wake up. the problems we are having come from both sides of the American political spectrum. Banks were mandated by the Govt. to to offer loans to people that had no business taking such loans. Wikipedia what Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac are. Maybe it will shed some light on your cluelessness.
2. The current president and the supermajority in the House and Senate are doing all they can with bribes and extortion to pass a bill that only 3 in 10 Americans want. And now the president has made a sweetheart deal with the unions, so that only private citizens must pay for it all. Unions or Federal workers don't need to pay for anything anymore, as long as they keep voting democrat. The US is turning into Venezuela, where just enough people are paid off to become elected. Its corrupt, my friend. Your hero is a sham.
How pitiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!