Is it just me, or are the hearings of Doan and Sampson just begging to be expressed through musical comedy? Something themed on the curious lack of memory available to today's GOP. Costume suggestions, set design, casting etc. for MEMORYGATE THE MUSICAL! all gratefully accepted in the comments.
(curtain rises on Sampson's Big Solo)
"The Files There Weren't" (tune: Barbra Streisand's Memries(The Way We Were)
"Memries,
Dusty corners of my mind
Foggy water-colored memories
Of the way we were
(dances, shifts uncomfortably)
Did I say "Dusty"?
Or Foggo? No, I can’t bring to mind
Any meetings with him either
Or the files there weren't...
(blinking, more dancing)
Could they have been in my bottom drawer?
I only aggregated all the lines
If I had the chance I’d do it differently
Or I should have...Or, I...would have...
No Memries, No Karl Rove, I never met
Too illegal to remember?
I've been advised to forget
So I have no memory
I don’t remember
No I just can’t remember
The files there were...
(I mean) The files there weren't..."
(scroll down for Lurita's big number)
Lurita Doan sings "No Memory" (a la CATS)
No Memory
So we met in my office?
I have no recollection
I honestly don’t recall
I don’t remember the time I knew who Karl Rove was
Let the memory lapse again
(squints at hseet, shakes head)
Every cookie
That I eat is a clear recollection
But my mind’s hazy
On the the who, why, wherefore?
At that my recall’s lazy!
(dramatic gestures here of her honesty)
Honest!
You must trust in my witness!
When the hell is the recess?
No I’ll never give in.
Hey, what’s that bus for?
I was told these mem’ries would do...
I guess a new lie... will begin."
(walks offstage, refusing to touch her glass and muttering about prints.)
Ok, as a lyricist I realize that make a pretty good historian. So what about you? Got any of your own musical interpretations for MEMORYGATE: The Musical?