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The Ghost of John McCain Is Inside Out for MSNBC Addicts
Stuck in Donald Trump’s head, literally but also artistically.
The concept and all its contradictions get a thuddingly literal interpretation in The Ghost of John McCain, a musical that imagines the late senator expecting to end up in heaven after his death in 2018 and instead finding himself trapped in a crumbling, gold-encrusted three-star hotel that is the mind of Donald Trump. The musicalalso takes potshots at Hillary’s megalomania and the fact that Biden is near death, and — once McCain gets locked in a Trump hotel room — it drops some references to his imprisonment in the Hanoi Hilton that are just in bad taste. In the back half of the show, Love’s Karen makes a futile attempt to stand up against both Trump and McCain with an aria about how she feels left behind by the economy, unable to afford the life she expected, and ignored by both parties (here, as elsewhere, Drew Fornarola’s score goes for diet mega-musical).
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