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Total Rating: 
***1/4
Previews: 
September 15, 2005
Opened: 
September 29, 2005
Ended: 
January 2007
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Triad Theater
Theater Type: 
off-Broadway
Theater: 
Triad Theater
Phone: 
(212) 362-2511
Genre: 
Comedy
Author: 
Joshua Rosenblum
Director: 
Gary Slavin
Review: 

Bush is Bad is a first-class political satire that goes far beyond the obvious. The three highly talented performers -- Janet Dickinson, Neal Mayer, and Michael McCoy -- are comedians with strong musical voices and actors who can fully realize the many characters each plays.  Janet as Condoleeza Rice is brilliant, including a riff on the piano. Michael in a faux Schumann "Das Busch is Shlecht," Neal in "The Gay Agenda," a Brechtian "Crazy Ann Coulter," an Andrew Lloyd Webber "Scooter Libby Superstar," "Conservative Values II"--  a powerful piece about abortion: fight for a fetus until it's born-- then it's on its own, and actual quotes from the actual Bush "In his own Words" -- it's all brilliant, incisive, top-level satire not limited to what we already know, but taking off in fun, hilarious invention.

Joshua Rosenblum, who wrote the show, is also superb at the piano.

Parental: 
adult themes
Cast: 
Neal Mayer, Michael McCoy, Janet Dickinson.
Technical: 
Costumes: Anne Auberjonois.
Critic: 
Richmond Shephard
Date Reviewed: 
July 2006