A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020) on Netflix
The series' cast returns to the stage at Los Angeles's Orpheum Theatre to perform the third-season episode "Hartsfield's Landing." Between the acts, guests address the audience about voting.
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Plot summary
President Josiah Bartlett, Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, Sam Seaborn, C.J. Cregg, Donna Moss, Leo McGarry, Charlie Young and Nancy McNally are among the characters in a stage version of the third-season episode "Hartsfield's Landing," performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The series' cast reprises its roles from a script whose act breaks turn to the audience. Those guests, among them a former first lady and a former president, speak about voting in the coming election. They address mail-in ballots and how long a count can take, and they urge young voters in particular, all in support of When We All Vote, a nonprofit working to raise turnout in United States elections.
Cast
- Lionel D. Carsonas Security Guard Tommy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In the reunion special, the role of Leo McGarry was taken over by Sterling K. Brown, because John Spencer, who had played McGarry on The West Wing, died in 2005.
- Director Thomas Schlamme had previously directed a live episode of ER in 1997, and watched live television shows such as Playhouse 90 for ideas about how to approach the special.
