Meghan McCain Reveals Her Family Had No Clue About ‘Ghost Of John McCain’ Musical

Meghan McCain has claimed she had no data of a brand new musical impressed by her late father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Her remarks arrive after Quixote Productions and former McCain marketing campaign aide Max Fose, co-producers of the stage manufacturing, introduced a “by-invitation only industry reading” of “The Ghost of John McCain” in New York on Thursday.

“My family has not authorized it nor was aware of it. I was as surprised as everyone else to see the announcement,” Meghan McCain wrote in an announcement to The Messenger.

The manufacturing incorporates a e-book from playwright Scott Elmegreen and a rating from composer Drew Fornarola, which presents “a unique psychological exploration of power, rivalry, and the human condition,” in response to a press launch.

The musical describes the late senator as awakening and “horrified to find himself back in captivity, in the afterlife, inside the mind of Donald Trump.”

Trump has notably hurled various assaults towards John McCain over time, together with final week when the previous president mocked the late senator over accidents he sustained throughout his time within the navy.

In addition to John McCain and Trump, different characters within the musical embrace Trump’s mind, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Hillary Clinton.

Elmegreen informed EW that somebody near the manufacturing had beforehand reached out to Cindy McCain, Meghan’s mom and John’s widow, in regards to the musical.

Elmegreen famous that he and Fornarola have completed their finest to carry the “vision” of the late former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who’s listed as a co-writer of the musical and is an ex-McCain aide, “to life.”

He stated Woods’ spouse, Marlene Galán-Woods, was amongst those that inspired work on the musical to go on, and he or she reached out to Cindy McCain final yr.

“We look forward to Meghan seeing our show, and we hope that she enjoys it [as] much as we have enjoyed working on it,” he wrote in an e mail to EW.

HuffPost has contacted Meghan McCain, who was not instantly accessible for remark.