Our current state of politics is so easily lampooned and our expectations for change so effortlessly undercut by disappointment that any political satire, attempting to strike deep within the heart of an audience, becomes an onerous task. Thus, the romantic yet bitter, funny yet biting political musical play Campaign, written by Samuel Warren Joseph, and music and lyrics by both Joseph and Jon Detherage, currently at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles, is surprisingly vivid and entertaining. Glenn Mann (Brian Byers) is running for governor and he is everything we have sadly come to expect from our politicians, but in an amusing package: glib, two-faced and coincidentally, secretly shtupping his press secretary, Brenda Malloy (Jean Altadel). This comes as no surprise to Mann's wife, Elaine (Barbara Keegan), who looks the other way, as other pol's wives have done, in exchange for...
- 10/14/2010
- by Brad Schreiber
- Huffington Post
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