So, what rhymes with Obama?

Yes, former president Barack Obama is the subject of a new play –a musical!—at one of New York’s most prestigious off-Broadway houses. Opening Nov. 6, the production, titled 44, follows a run in Chicago (where the future president began his career, of course) and a highly successful run at Los Angeles’ Kirk Douglas Theatre. “We thought the show would do well,” says Brett Webster, a rep from that theatre. “But we certainly didn’t expect it to extend and then go on to break box office records.”

The main man behind that journey is Eli Bauman. He worked for the 2008 Obama campaign, primarily in Las Vegas. But it was four years later that this idea struck.

“I was alone in a hotel room in Charlotte, having worked the last week on the Hillary campaign,” he recalls

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