"Election Night" from SOFT POWER at Signature Theatre

"Election Night" from SOFT POWER
Featuring Andrew Cristi and the cast of SOFT POWER
SOFT POWER
August 6 - September 15, 2024
For tickets visit SigTheatre.org
A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Kimberly Akimbo).
After the 2016 election, when a Chinese American playwright is attacked by an unknown assailant, he hallucinates a Golden Age musical comedy about a Chinese theater producer and Hillary Clinton falling in love. Hilarious and biting, this political satire dares to ask: Does American Democracy still work? And is it worth believing in?
An exhilarating ride through political absurdity with a faceoff between Chinese and American exceptionalism, Soft Power makes an electric debut in the nation’s capital.
SOFT POWER
"Democracy" performed by Grace Yoo and The Soft Power Orchestra
Book & Lyrics by David Henry Hwang
Music & Additional Lyrics by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by Ethan Heard
Choreography by Billy Bustamante
Music Supervisor Chris Fenwick
Music Direction by Angie Benson
Orchestrations by Danny Troob