VOTES Musical About the Clintons Extends Through May 22 at Castillo

VOTES by Jacqueline S. Salit and Fred Newman, composed by Annie Roboff, and directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander, has been extended through May 22nd at Castillo Theatre (543 West 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues).

The show began performances April 1, opened April 3 and was originally scheduled to close May 8. The extended run schedule is: May 13 and 14 at 7:30 PM; May 20 and 21 at 7:30, May 22 at 2:00 PM.

VOTES by Jacqueline S. Salit and Fred Newman, composed by leading pop/country tunesmith Annie Roboff, is an "outsider" musical with a canny view of the Clintons as a political couple. The piece is set on the eve of the 2016 election, with America only hours away from choosing its first woman president. Melanie Jefferson, a former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, is ready to count the votes when an unexpected visitor from her past arrives to challenge her conscience and her destiny. The musical explores the cost of power by looking "under the hood" of America's leading power couple, who came out of the 60's aiming to create a new political culture and went through a process of having it corrupted. The playwrights are primarily interested in this "cost of power."

Pictured: Lisa Ann Wright-Mathews (Melanie Jefferson) and Wayne Miller (William Jefferson). Photo by Ronald K. Glassman.