Obama on my Mind is a musical play about the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama by British crime writer and film producer Teddy Hayes.
The play, a musical comedy, is a campaign story set the week after the 2008 Republican National Convention.[1][2]
Reviews were strongly negative. Lyn Gardner, a British reviewer wrote a critical review in The Guardian after having seen the show at the Hen and Chickens Theatre where the musical made its debut to mostly sold-out crowds, describing the musical as "opportunistic", and as a "bizarrely unfocused text - an apparently unedited stream of consciousness".[3]
However one year later the play was taken to Seattle Washington and staged at the Langston Hughes Theater where it was positively reviewed, championed and supported by African American audiences as a piece of entertainment that reflected both the humour as well as all of the events surrounding the jaw dropping surprise of an African American being elected as US president. The Broadway World described the play as a "politically inspired comedic romp featuring a motley crew of loyal, obsessive and downright peculiar personalities, striving to get their candidate into the White House."
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edit- ^ President Obama Inspires London Musical, Lisa Auret, Special to CNBC.com | 27 Feb 2009 [1]
- ^ New Musical Obama On My Mind to Premiere in London, By Mark Shenton, 20 Jan 2009, Playbill "Playbill News: New Musical Obama on My Mind to Premiere in London". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2009.
- ^ Obama on my Mind, Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, Saturday 7 March 2009