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BERLIN – A musical about Barack Obama's "Yes we can" election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.
Even John McCain and Sarah Palin are given stage time, with actors portraying the losing Republican candidates and belting out songs on their behalf.
In all, 30 singers, actors and dancers are to perform in the musical "Hope — the Obama Musical Story" when it opens at the Jahrhunderthalle concert hall in Frankfurt in a bilingual mix of English and German. The audience may recognize that many songs quote from the politicians' stump speeches during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.
The venue for the premiere seems appropriate since the optimism of Obamania remains largely intact in Germany, about a year after Obama, an accomplished public speaker, became America's first black president. One campaign highlight was a July 2008 speech to some 200,000 people in the heart of Berlin about the world, the U.S. and its place in it.
On Wednesday, the "Hope" performers were still working at their kicks on a small rehearsal stage in an industrial zone of the southwestern city of Karlsruhe.
"We are rehearsing every day for 12 hours now," Jimmie Wilson, who plays Obama, said in a telephone interview. "After the opening, we have to see what the feedback is like and then we'll go on tour."
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These folk can sang! And although this man playing Obama looks different, he's cute!
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