Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon

Rich Little is probably the most famous celebrity impersonator in American showbiz history: In his heydey in the 1960s and 1970s, he was a fixture on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, which he also guest-hosted multiple times. Chief among the many dozens of voices in his repetoire were prominent politicians, especially the highly imitable Richard Nixon. But although he headlined in Las Vegas for decades, he is only now (at the age of 82) making his New York theatrical debut—playing, yes, Richard Nixon in an "alternative history" by George J. Bugatti. The play imagines what might a Nixon impeachment trial might have looked like had the President not resigned; it is based on claims by erstwhile Nixon lawyer Geoff Shepard that the impeachment was a crooked conspiracy by Washington insiders to remove Nixon from office. (Sound familiar?) Josh Iacovelli directs a cast of 14.