Opening this weekend in Frankfurt, Germany, the new musical, Hope: The Obama Musical Story. A bilingual production, H:TOMS features the characters of Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin, who apparently belts out a number accompanied by a bevy of scantily clad go-go dancers. She’s matched up, I suppose, against a hot-looking Hillary Clinton.
Germany’s Der Spiegel reports that the plot follows a group of residents in an apartment-sharing community—a disillusioned and unemployed Puerto Rican, an ultraconservative widow of German heritage and an African American political activist. Gradually, the characters become galvanized by Obama’s message of hope and change.
Some highlights (?) from H:TOMS follow below: