“To hear these different companies of actors — three generations of actors, really — communicating about the same roles, it’s a pretty unique situation. It’s not something that you get the chance to do very often,” said the company's Tony Award-winning Artistic Director John Doyle.
Other celebrities will include André De Shields, Raúl Esparza, Audra McDonald and George Takei. There will be one person participating with an intimate knowledge of the White House: Hillary Clinton.
Clinton has been a big booster of theater and took in the last Broadway performance of Doyle's “A Color Purple” in 2017. A request was put to her office and Clinton quickly responded that she was on board.