Meghan McCain has claimed she had no information of a brand new musical impressed by her late father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Her remarks arrive after Quixote Productions and former McCain marketing campaign aide Max Fose, co-producers of the stage manufacturing, introduced a “by-invitation only industry reading” of “The Ghost of John McCain” in New York on Thursday.
“My family has not authorized it nor was aware of it. I was as surprised as everyone else to see the announcement,” Meghan McCain wrote in an announcement to The Messenger.
The manufacturing encompasses a e book from playwright Scott Elmegreen and a rating from composer Drew Fornarola, which affords “a unique psychological exploration of power, rivalry, and the human condition,” based on a press launch.
The musical describes the late senator as awakening and “horrified to find himself back in captivity, in the afterlife, inside the mind of Donald Trump.”
Trump has notably hurled various assaults towards John McCain through the years, together with final week when the previous president mocked the late senator over accidents he sustained throughout his time within the navy.
In addition to John McCain and Trump, different characters within the musical embody Trump’s mind, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Hillary Clinton.
Elmegreen instructed EW that somebody near the manufacturing had beforehand reached out to Cindy McCain, Meghan’s mom and John’s widow, in regards to the musical.
Elmegreen famous that he and Fornarola have carried out their greatest to deliver the “vision” of the late former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who’s listed as a co-writer of the musical and is an ex-McCain aide, “to life.”
He mentioned Woods’ spouse, Marlene Galán-Woods, was amongst those that inspired work on the musical to go on, and she or he reached out to Cindy McCain final yr.
“We look forward to Meghan seeing our show, and we hope that she enjoys it [as] much as we have enjoyed working on it,” he wrote in an e mail to EW.
HuffPost has contacted Meghan McCain, who was not instantly obtainable for remark.
