Michael Moore Is Back to Take Down Trump... With a Broadway Musical

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Michael Moore is back with a new plot to take down President Donald Trump. "Can a Broadway show bring down a sitting president?" the promotional poster for Moore's new production asks.

Yes, Moore is putting on another one-man show called "The Terms of My Surrender," and for 12 weeks starting in July theatergoers who can afford the tickets (which, ironically, rarely comprise the types of people Moore claims to champion) can be subjected to his brand of every-man wisdom. The NY Times reports:

His plan, he said, is to perform a scripted (but also responsive to the news) one-man (more-or-less) show, called “The Terms of My Surrender,” eight times a week for 12 weeks, starting in July. He said that the show would simultaneously be entertaining and infuriating — not stand-up comedy, not a TED Talk, not a rally — but “a very developed piece of entertainment for people who like to think.”

“It’s a humorous play about a country that’s just elected a madman — I mean, there’s really no other way to put it,” he said in an interview at Sardi’s, the theater district mainstay.

He was characteristically shlumpy, in an oversized black pullover hoodie and a red 49ers baseball cap; gracious to the passers-by who thanked him for his activism and asked for a handshake or a selfie; and thoughtful about theater, as he explained what a firebrand was doing amid the “Cats” crowd.

He said that he had been thinking about trying his hand at theater for some time, but the election last year of Donald J. Trump as president — which Mr. Moore correctly predicted — provided an impetus to do it now. “Can something like this unravel an unhinged man?” he asked. “I think that discombobulation might be our most effective path to undoing his presidency.”

"We’re 10 blocks from Trump Tower, we’re in the corporate capital of America, we’re in the financial capital of America, we’re in the media capital of America," Moore said.

"If one was going to stand on a stage and do the things that I’m going to do, there’s only one place to do it, and it’s here in this city and it’s right here at the epicenter of creative expression and free speech."

Yes, and a Broadway theater production is the one platform only an elite few ever have access to. 

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