POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE Previews

Bumping this thread... is anyone going tonight?

From photos on social, the curtain is traditional; red drape with gold tassels. And (one of?) the set looks like a White House conference with the podium, seal, blue walls, etc. Audience members received campaign buttons with the show logo on it. A few tweets are of the "funniest things I've seen in a long time", "haven't laughed this hard" variety.

so whats the actual plot?

also um what is happening here

Updated On: 4/14/22 at 10:38 PM

The cast sings Joan Jett And The Blackhearts' I Hate Myself For Loving You. Julianne also dances in the show, of course, as she should.

The show's socials created a playlist of music videos, including that song, and can be found here. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIzELnJOAV1_E0O4W-lDn12ptAFlOrN4a

Updated On: 4/14/22 at 11:17 PM

willep said: "Scarlet Leigh said: ".....are those.... heeled crocs?

Why am I strangely here for whatever chaos is in this image?"

Look like regular crocs to me. What I think my oh are seeing as a heel is just a bit of her dress."

Some tweets from audience members mentioned Vanessa goes back and forth between heeled crocs and regular crocs.

https://twitter.com/tinawargz/status/1514770501419233284

https://twitter.com/baytato/status/1514770040993697806

Updated On: 4/14/22 at 11:19 PM

They're definitely heeled Crocs.

Jesus, we all flew here to talk about heeled Crocs, myself included. I’m going to bed.


Sorry for the double post or whatever.

Dan6 said:“Other than maybe MJ, I think it’s the only Broadway opening this season that no one has ever seen.”



Flying Over Sunset too. Also, I’m assuming you’re not counting revivals that opened cold on Broadway - if so, there’s several more."

Yes, I was excluding revivals. But my bad for forgetting FOS, which I adored.

This is one of those shows where I forgive all its faults because of just how funny it is. I can’t really complain if I was laughing nonstop. Making the plot make sense isn’t a priority for the show, having the characters really grow and such isn’t a priority, but both the plot and the characters set up all the comedy so well that it really doesn’t matter.

I agree there’s not a weak link in the cast, all seven are incredible and hilarious. Rachel Dratch was the standout for me, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a funnier performance.

I thought the set was great. It rotates between scenes to set the new location and it sometimes passed over different segments of it to show something else that was also happening, which often added a lot. And all the individual sets worked really well for their scenes.

I wasn’t a fan of the previously mentioned curtain call events. It didn’t feel like it exactly fit and it just distracted from what made me love the show. The ending itself also felt somewhat abrupt and unsatisfying, but it didn’t detract too much from the show as a whole.

Since I was expecting and hoping for a good comedy I got everything I could have possibly wanted out of this, but I’ll be interested to see what the general consensus is because if you’re not blinded by the comedy I could see different ways people might not like it.

For the person who asked about the plot: The current president is more incompetent than ANY there has ever been in real life. These seven women in his life have to deal with that in all the different ways it affects them. “Hilarity ensues.” I can give more details spoiler tagged if wanted

Updated On: 4/14/22 at 11:44 PM

I saw it tonight and absolutely LOVED it!!!

It was hilarious, it was fun, and it knew exactly what it was.

The whole cast was AMAZING!!!! Vanessa Williams definitely stood out to out to me (THOSE OUTFITS). This is the second time I've seen her in a show this year where she has epic outfits, but I am DELIGHTED to say that they did not overshadow her this time around. Rachel Dratch Rachel Dratched and it was Rachel Dratch and that was amazing to see live! Rachel also definitely got the biggest applause. Julie White's Cheif of Staff character is the closest thing to a lead in this show and has great! My one critique is that she spends the whole show screaming and I think it would a) be better for her voice and b) land better if she struck a better balance between talking and yelling. Julianne Hough definitely surprised me the most. Her role is just SOOOO different from the way she is in real life (or at least the way she presented on AGT), but she did a great job! Lea Delaria did such a good job at making you love her and hate her and understand why all of the other characters love and hate her. She definitely got some of my favorite bits in the show! Lili Cooper was awesome and also got some of my favorite moments. She had a pair of great monologues in Act 2 too! Suzi Nakamura, however, might have been my favorite. I thought she was hilarious and really owned the first Act especially.



Some notes about technical stuff:

The set is a turntable with 4 rooms (you can only see one at a time). All 4 are just different rooms in the White House and they do redecorate some rooms while you can't see them, so you end up with more than 4 locations. There are also a few scenes where a curtain (not the drape, but a decorated one that makes sense in the moment) drops down and the scene happens in front of it. I thought they nailed the costumes for this, with Lea and Vanessa having particularly awesome outfits. The lighting, direction, sound, etc. didn't really stand out to me, but they weren't bad at all. There was one very cool lighting/sound-heavy scene right at the end of Act 1 that was neat though.

Some do NOTS for this show: DO NOT see this show IF vomit bothers you. There is a TON of vomit. There is also some blood and several full blackouts. I loved this show so much that I didn't mind, but they do usually freak me out a bit, so be warned.

This comment is SUPER long, so I'm gonna wrap it up here. But, I'm going to write another one about the plot too!

I hope that this show really lands because I loved it!

TaffyDavenport said: "Running time?"

Got out just past 10 after starting a little before 8:10 with a 15 minute intermission.