Theatre Review: Paul Ryan Presents Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist
Paul Ryan has always loved Ayn Rand because, for her, capitalism is a religion, which makes the acquiring of money one’s greatest pursuit and virtue. While Paul Ryan and GOPers push Jesus at their image, in truth, they are pretty close to and with atheists like, Ayn Rand. At The Pit, Annie Pulsipher’s Paul Ryan Presents Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist showed that comedy is education, which means you can laugh and learn.
With direct quotes abound, Sebastian Gullo assures you know Ayn Rand or Aynnie is terrifying. She is morally cold, emotionally numb, and horrifyingly brutish in her belief that making money is the sole purpose. For her, like the GOP, the wealthy do not have any social responsibility, which is why Logan Faust’s FDR and Benjamin Culpepper’s Daddy Warbucks love her. Both are hilarious as wealthy men eager to feel good about not being it or, at least, not wanting to do good unto others. They want their rich lifestyle and need someone who could quiet yells of desired guilt to let them yacht in peace. Enter Aynnie Rand: the Lil Orphan Objectivist!
Directed by Stephen M. Eckert, this play/ musical is genuinely good and should compete the NYC musical festivals. Chantelle Guido’s choreography along with her show-stopping turn as Sister Hannigan is so Broadway, and I love it because you wouldn’t expect such a musical gem at The Pit. This is place is a landmark for improv and comedy, of which Paul Ryan Present Aynnie does fit. Leon Schwendener captures the for Speaker’s tense hypocrisy, and his suffered inability to cover up that the last thing he could be was religious because he was trying to be rich. Seeing his meltdown had people dying of laughter, and each actor has a moment to shine in improv/ laughable emotional breakdowns. Jordan Plutzer as Henry Wallace captures the shadiness of persons trying to help the people while carrying their own sins. Still he was trying to do good, and Ariel Neema Blake’s Grace, Becca Bernard’s Pepper, Stephanie Hawkins’ Molly, and Zach Herman’s Tessie shine as the people he is trying to show need help.
For Ayn Rand, if you are not materially rich then you are spiritually unworthy. For her, acquitted wealth, both inherited and earned, is a staple of someone that is a valuable voice to society’s moral structure. To Rand, if you can get so much money, then you deserve to tell others how they should live….or not live. In essence, she is the Republican dream, and. for 80 minutes, Paul Ryan Presents Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist showed how cruel, foolish, but powerful that idea can be politically. For Tickets To Paul Ryan Presents Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist Click Here
