Tumblr user Lawrence Denes got a chance to see Will Ferrell’s much anticipated Broadway show about George Bush. It appears there was a secret performance at LA’s Largo. Here’s the full quote:
We enter Largo theater having no idea what it is we’re about to see, and finally, after everyone has found their seat, they announce that we are about to see a stage reading of a one-man show that will be playing on Broadway beginning early next year called You’re Welcome, America: a final evening with George W. Bush then the lights go to black and when they come up again we hear the sound of a helicopter flying in and then onto the stage walks Will Ferrell, with his trademark Dubya grayed hair, squinted eyes, and sly smirk. And the crowd goes wild.
You’re Welcome, America takes place immediately following Barack Obama’s swearing in and is less of a performance and more of an hour-and-a-half long intimate conversation with the audience with Ferrell in character as George Bush, reminiscing on his life and career. At the onset, Bush disclaims that now that he’s no longer in office he can do whatever he wants, saying “I’m a loose cannon… I could even show you a picture of my penis” [a picture of a penis is projected on the back wall] “yeah, that is what you call ‘shock and awe.’ Don’t believe me? I’ll show it again.” [the picture reappears]
He then proceeds to talk about his early life and school career, including being a male cheerleader at Yale, and recounts a hilarious story of how he once got trapped in an abandoned mine shaft with his father and brothers.
Each ‘chapter’ of Bush’s life is separated by a musical interlude (so Ferrell can change costume) with a Secret Service Agent standing center stage who is at first stoic, but as the show goes on breaks into more and more flamboyant dancing.
Sound pretty interesting, does it not?
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