From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 23:01:25 MDT
I just returned home from seeing the Capitol Steps - a musical
political review show on Broadway.
They tackled the Microsoft anti-trust suit by bringing out Michael
Jackson, Bob Dylan and Liza Minelli look-alikes to sing the song "We
All Use Word" (to the tune of We Are the World) as a spoof fund-raiser
for an impoverished Bill Gates.
After that was over, the Bob Dylan character stuck around on stage to
sing "Everybody Must Get Cloned" -- which, title aside, seemed
decidedly anti-cloning. A second Bob Dylan came out on stage and sang
with the first - then a third came out all hideously mutated and picked
a fight with the second clone. The lyrics were clever, but I still
felt uneasy sitting through a meme-poisoning performance. How could
cloning be wrong? sigh...
If tonight wasn't the end of their fourth run on Broadway, I'd suggest
the show. I looked for a copy of "Everybody Must Get Cloned" online,
but only found the CD for sale at capsteps.com - off the album "When
Bush Comes to Shove".
Enjoy,
-crw.
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