Snoopy!

By Sean “GOP-y” Donovan

Snoopy In The Oval Office
Directed and Written by Mike Huckabee & Mitt Romney
Starring Tommy Tune, Martha Plimpton, Nathan Lane, Annette Bening, Angelica Huston and Michael Gambon
Now Playing at the Nederlander Theatre
Grade- B+

When I walked into the historic Nederlander theatre to watch this masterpiece of social satire (one that really shows them liberals who they’re messin’ with! You know they all meet! And they talk! And they plot!), I was struck by an aura of sheer brilliance. What a wonderful show this is! The cast is magnificent, the writing taut, and the presidential hopefuls direct with the ferocity and power of a jungle cat.
The labyrinthine plot involves the newest president of the country (played aptly by Tommy Tune, in his best role ever) struggling to live with a habitual wife (Annette Bening, her eyes lit up like fireworks), a humble vice president (Nathan Lane), and a feisty secretary of state (Angelica Huston, certainly worthy of all the awards Broadway, and the world, can give her). Popping up periodically throughout the show is a narcoleptic salesman with a heart condition (a very stalwart Michael Gambon). With a cast like that, you’d expect a whole menagerie of hi-jinks to occur- and they do!
The one disappointment in this exhilarating piece is the set design. In one scene, Nathan Lane and Michael Gambon’s characters simulate a house while Annette Bening’s bakes cookies. It’s largely un-impressive, and throughout the show there are similar issues.
While the sets are a disappointment, you cannot deny that Snoopy In The Oval Office is performing a valuable service to its country. Rent, the Nederlander Theatre’s previous show, was a haven for atheists, Muslims, and other enemies of freedom and liberty. It glorified ne’er-do-wells, and set that their rebellious treatment of government was right! Ha! Next I suppose they’ll be saying we should leave Iraq, and that we should separate church and state! Ha! Thank you Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee for ending this evil!!!!