However, poor ratings and an unenthusiastic cast led to the show's cancellation after barely a year.
The cast also leads young theatergoers in creating their own birthday cake (actually a huge jigsaw puzzle) and in discovering a little bit of Mexican culture.
What's more, his historical cast of mind and conservative tastes led him to look back to the future in another way, pioneering in the programming of works by dead masters.
A cast of glib young men led by Ben Affleck rake in riches by cold-calling investors and talking them into buying dubious securities - the kind of thing compliance officers are supposed to stop.
But whether the current cast of Southern Republicans can lead the G.O.P. to long-term majority status is another question.
"Bring in da Noise," with its youthful cast led and choreographed by Savion Glover, should also attract a young audience.
But no one will leave the theater feeling sad, especially at matinees, when the cast leads young theatergoers in a free theater workshop after the show.
The cast of Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin, namely stars Coco Martin and Maja Salvador, lead the show's Pambansang Pasasalamat Tour (lit.
An all-star cast, including Groucho Marx and Bob Hope, led a get-out-the-vote telethon in 1956.
From August to June, they shot three weeks out of every month, wherever the "cast" led them.