In case anyone has missed Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's scandalous confessions, expletive-laden videos and Jimmy Kimmel appearances over the past year, a new theatrical production is bringing his honor's story to the musical stage.
"Rob Ford the Musical: Birth of a Ford Nation" held auditions in Toronto on Monday for a show expected to open in mid-September, just ahead of October's mayoral election. Ford, who has entered rehab for substance abuse, is currently taking a break from campaigning.
By early afternoon, a few dozen would-be Fords had taken a turn for the show's creators, and several men with the mayor's heavyset build and close-cropped hair wandered the halls at the downtown theater school where the open curtain call was held.