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The year 2020. President Sarah Palin's faith-based
economy
has collapsed -- Where can we turn?
Here's the perfect comedic cure for our plunging
portfolios.
The lively songs parody everything from
country ballads to acid rock, with a rousing finale that
would make Bruce Springsteen proud.
From the writer of "A New War" (KCPT 2006) and
Broadway's "Jackie -- An American Life."
The Songs:
Rockin the Money / Rollin’ the Green
(Ka-Ching!, Ka-Ching!, Ka-Chang!, Ka-Chang!)
Toxic Assets
(Heavy death metal)
Portfolio
(Oh, Where Did You Go?)
All the Best Things in Life
(Old school country music)
New America
(Springsteen style stadium rock anthem)
From the Cape Cod Times:
Local playwright-director Gip Hoppe was in Germany — directing "Der
Schuh Des Manitu," a hit musical that spoofs American Westerns —
when the stock market crashed last year. So he had the unusual
perspective of watching the economic meltdown from outside the
U.S.
Now, after being asked to write a
show for Payomet Performing Arts Center in Truro this summer,
he's also steeped himself in what American TV talking heads have
been saying about the economy so he could offer his own spin on
the issues. What he came up with is a "musical financial
seminar," which is set up — really — as a hotel-ballroom-style
investment seminar.
Read the full review from the original production of "Boyce and
Melinda..."
From The Barnstable Patriot:
Debuting at the Payomet Performing Arts Center at the former Air
Force base in North Truro is Boyce & Melinda Petersons'
Investment Strategies For The Post-Money World. The musical is
set in 2019, shortly after President Palin’s resignation and the
total collapse of the global economy.
“It takes place at an investment seminar, run by Boyce and
Melinda Peterson, a husband-and-wife financial adviser team who
transitioned themselves from failed music careers,” said Hoppe.
“I thought how fun could this be,” Travis said. “A musical set
at an investment seminar would open up a lot of possibilities.”
Read the full review from the original production of "Boyce and
Melinda..."
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