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Blagojevich is the hair apparent in Second City's 'Superstar'
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| Last Edited | RP Feb 26, 2009 04:18pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If you’re tired and weary from encountering the Rod Blagojevich self-justification media tour, live from New York, at all hours of the day and night, Second City might have just the anti-Blago catharsis you need. "Rod Blagojevich Superstar, Are you as nuts as we think you are?” goes the opening lyric to the deliciously unsubtle show they’re subtitling “Rodspell!”
In this hourlong, no-holds-barred spoof—a must-see for local political junkies and connoisseurs of that very special Illinois brand of ethical governance—the laughs unspool like wavy strands of thick, dark hair traveling through the infamous Blagojevich hairbrush.
“My party, my party, why have you forsaken me,” goes this musical Passion of the Rod. “Machine, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The taped antics of the former governor (and his wife) were, of course, golden for Second City’s writers, for which they were paid to play. Characters such as Dick Mell—whose song “Join the Machine” was inspired by “Magic To Do” from “Pippin”—could not have been invented with anywhere near as much color as in real life. “Just stick with Daddy Mell here,” the actor Mike Bradecich sings to the arriviste Rod, as a gaga Patti (Lori McClain) looks on, “and I will make you a star.”
But funniest of all is the moment when Rod tells the persistently clueless Roland Burris (Sam Richardson) that his technique of being black for courting the African-American vote was a stroke of genius. |
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