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De Blasio's Neverland: A Long, Strange Trip

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/16/19

In March 2018, I was asked by a higher-up on the Inner Circle script committee to write the show’s opening number, focusing on Mayor de Blasio to the tune of the song that opened “The Producers.”

The original song’s title, “The Worst Show in Town,” was a tipoff that I should not construct what another Broadway musical called “A Hymn to Him.” And so the lyric was divided between Mr. de Blasio’s recent re-election and indications he had already given that he would launch a campaign for President and featured the couplet, “Let him run and we’ll stand up and cheer/Life is better when he’s not here.”

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