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Intelligencer: September 5–12


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That Woman: The Musical!
Billary in harmony.
Just in time for Hillary Clinton’s reelection campaign, Monica Lewinsky’s back. This time, the ex-intern’s just gonna open her mouth—and sing! Monica! The Musical starts September 21 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. It starts off with Bill in Arkansas, singing, “I got everything a growing boy would dare to grope for,” and proceeds to ridicule Ken Starr for his “girl hands” and portray Clinton secretary Betty Currie as a frenzied gospel-lover (played by Frenchie Davis, the American Idol contestant who was booted when dirty pictures of her were discovered on a Website called Daddy’s Little Girls). Despite her bad fashion sense and low self-esteem, Monica is treated “quite sympathetically,” according to co-creator Daniel Blau. “Almost everyone we meet has a story about a friend who knows Monica,” he says. “So word on the street has it that she knows about it by now. And if she wants to see it, that would be awesome. I think she’d say, ‘Hey, this show is really funny. But I kind of don’t remember this all happening in rhyming-couplet form. Did it?’ ” As for whether Hillary would see it, her campaign spokesperson refused to comment.
—Shana Liebman


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