POTUS Broadway Review
The underlying point of these characters is supposed to be how capable they are. More than one of them is asked, or asks herself, “Why aren’t you President?” But rather than take charge, as Jean the press secretary says to Harriet the chief of staff: “You stand in for him every single day, you’ve done it for years. You clean up his messes, you make excuses, you do his job, and then you wake up and do it all over again.”
But the real message of this production is how a capable cast can let a playwright get away with almost anything.
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