A Bush Carol
Or, George Dubya and the Xmas of Evil

Book by David Johnston
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Speights

Johnston's dark and raucous political satire, with original songs by Stephen Speights, is a musical lampoon of the Bush presidency, based on Dickens's “A Christmas Carol.  Transported by Karla Faye Tucker, a born-again Christian executed by the state of Texas in 1998, Dubya journeys to the past, present, and future in a series of hilarious and vividly imagined scenes: Will he learn, as Scrooge did, to carry Christmas in his heart? God help us, every one.

Directed by Gary Shrader

Review from NYTheatre.com

Photos from original production,
October, 2003
at the Marquee Theatre

Darin DePaul* (as Barbara Bush)
and Sean Kenin* (as George W. Bush)

Sarah Ireland* (as Karla Faye Tucker)
and Sean Kenin* (as George W. Bush)

 

Tracey Gilbert*, Brain Fuqua*, Tim McGee, and Sean Kenin*
(as Laura Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush)

 

Jonna McElrath*, Brian Fuqua*, Sean Kenin*, Don Carter, and Tracey Gilbert
(as Lynne Cheney, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, John Ashcroft, and Laura Bush)

Brian Fuqua*, Tim McGee, A-men Rasheed*, and Don Carter*
(as Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Gen. Colin Powell, and John Ashcroft)