'Clinton: The Musical' prepares for US debut

This July, a musical comedy about former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary will debut in New York, following the power couple as they try to save the presidency after the infamous affair. Duration: 01:41

Published

20 days ago

Categories

Arts & Society, Entertainment

Topics

Arts & Culture, Celebrity, Politics & Government

People

Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Karl Kenzler, Paul Hodge, Dick Morris

Places

United States of America, New York

Transcript

SHOTLIST: NEW YORK, JULY 2, 2014 SOURCE: AFPTV - shots of the musical comedy "Clinton" - VAR of the room - VAR of the show - shot of the presenter at the press conference - shot of the program of the press conference - shot of the actors during an interview SOUNDBITE 1 - Paul Hodge, author and composer, "Clinton" (man, English, 31 sec): "When I went and read Clinton's autobiography and he talked about how he felt like he had led this two parallel lives, and all these other people biographies talked about him as if he had all these contradictions in him and they even had little names for him like Dick Morris, who was his political strategist in his 1996 campaign, called him 'Saturday Night Bill and Sunday Morning President', and like the boyscout/the politician. So lots of people talking about these two different sides of him and so it just clicked and made a lot of sense to have two Bill Clinton's in the show." SOUNDBITE 2 - Karl Kenzler, actor/performer (man, English, 19 sec): "We don't have any kind of agenda, we're not for the Clintons or against them in terms of the show. What we're doing is saying, this was a crazy eight years with an incredibly smart guy who also made some very dumb choices in his personal life." /// NO AFP TEXT STORY