President Barack Obama Going To Broadway Tonight
Broadway Arrival Of President Obama
BROADWAY MAGAZINE – The New York Times is reporting that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be attending the 8 p.m. performance of August Wilson’s masterpiece Joe Turner’s Come and Gone tonight. The powerful revival has earned multiple Tony Award nominations, including one for Best Revival. From the article by Patrick Healy:
“The president and the first lady will be making a personal visit to New York tomorrow,” said Bill Burton, a spokesman for the president, who declined to elaborate on the schedule.
The Times cites three theatre insiders confirming that President Obama will be at the historic revival. Of course, we’ve talked about Presidential Broadway history and even featured President Obama’s Broadway connections in our Holiday Issue last December (read text here). We are excited to see that he is reportedly attending this landmark production. Good choice, Mr. President.
Broadway Magazine and Broadway.tv will be there to tell you about this historic performance. For our review from Mazall Sharp and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Video, check out the show page. Also, check out Charles Isherwood’s reflection on the play from The New York Times.
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May 30th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I am very happy to see President Obama and his wife take time out from their schedules and relax. C’mon people. With a highly professional and stress job of this nature, one must relax and enjoy the pleasures of life. These people are human. I wish I had someone to take me out!
May 31st, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Thanks, Cindy! We totally agree. He was seeing an important play by a great American playwright. We’ll try to set you up w/ a future president!
June 1st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
The President could have wisely elected to burn less fuel and be green friendly if Rahm Emmanuel had chauffeured the desrving couple from “the House” to “the Village”.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Barack Obama for me is the most charismatic president to be ever elected. He also makes great decisions, for example in the ecomomic stimulus package to counter the effects of recession.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 am
Barack Obama is not only a charismatic president but he is a very intelligent and smart person too. I congratulate him for winning a Nobel Peace Prize .
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July 23rd, 2010 at 1:34 pm
1 separate tone of voice with Msnbc inside the Tv show. He includes a truly tough immigration law policy. The master managed to graduate about the Harvard School. Today he has her a single Radio Show. He didn’t like any States leader.
October 6th, 2010 at 12:35 am
stimulus packages are very helpful for kickstarting the economy’“