Democracy: Terms and Conditions Apply -- A New Musical

Democracy: Terms and Conditions Apply show poster

A Satirical Musical Comedy
for Broadway · In Two Acts

Finally, the insurrection gets the choreography it deserves.

They brought flags, fur pelts, and a megaphone. We brought a pit orchestra.

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A Love Letter to Broadway Disguised as a Constitutional Crisis

Democracy: Terms and Conditions Apply is a satirical musical comedy spanning the sixty-four days between the 2020 election and the storming of the Capitol. Twenty-three original songs. Two acts. Every genre Broadway ever invented -- from barbershop quartet to Hamilton-style rap, Gilbert and Sullivan patter to Fosse jazz, country-western to cabaret -- aimed at the worst winter in American democracy.

The Book of Mormon meets The Producers -- every genre Broadway ever invented, aimed at the worst winter in American democracy.

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Low-angle view of the ensemble storming the House Chamber set

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Album Highlights

Most shows at this stage have a piano demo. This one has a full album.

Ballad of Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Gilbert and Sullivan meets the most absurd press conference in American history.

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Storm the Capitol, But Make It Fashion

Insurrection gets a costume change in this over-the-top dance number.

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We're Democrats, How Could We Lose?

The other side gets it just as hard. Campaign ads in French, down in Savannah.

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January Sixth Will Be the Day

The dramatic engine. A mastermind, a mob, and a plan that escalates from cabaret to chaos.

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Voice on the Line

Hamilton-style rap. The mastermind works the phones and the mob.

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I Never Lose

A delusional lounge-singer's victory lap, for a man who has, in fact, lost.

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Make America Great Again

The Act I showstopper: a patriotic anthem that's all spectacle, no substance.

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Stop the Steal, Buy Our Merch

Grift as a march. Save democracy, and don't miss the merch table.

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Stream Everywhere

Campaign staff in suits and lanyards cheering with phones raised outside the Four Seasons Total Landscaping storefront

"Nobody comes off clean. Not even the audience."

The biggest political crisis in modern American history, and nobody's made it a musical yet. That's the opportunity.

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Barbershop quartet in striped jackets performing in a school-gym polling place

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