Michelle Obama, Daughters Head to Broadway During Health Care Vote

By: Kevin Hechtkopf
Topics: First Family

First Lady Michelle Obama enters her car after seeing the Broadway musical "Memphis" in New York.

(Credit: AP)

As the House engaged in an intense health care reform debate on Sunday, Michelle Obama and the first daughters headed to Broadway.

According to the New York Daily News, Michelle, Sasha and Malia Obama went to the show "Memphis" in New York, along with friends of the girls.

"They didn't make an announcement but when they came in, everybody noticed and started taking pictures. Then people started clapping too and there was a standing ovation for them," audience member Terri Mertz told the Daily News.

The musical is about a young, white radio DJ who's in love with a black singer during the 1950s when rock n' roll was emerging in Memphis, according to the show's Web site.

Kevin Hechtkopf
Kevin Hechtkopf is CBSNews.com's politics editor.
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by bcs2k March 22, 2010 11:40 PM EDT: Sounds like fun and I hope they enjoyed it!!!

By the way forthcoming bitter haters, this taxpayer doesn't care how much it costs. She and Barack are all about advocating health and saving lives. They deserve it!!; Reply to this comment


by sandy19731 March 22, 2010 9:39 AM EDT: Good for Michelle! It was probably a little tense at home, anyway. Take the kids and have some fun.; Reply to this comment


by tomdegan58 March 22, 2010 8:39 AM EDT: It was so much fun watching these pathetic GOP lawmakers "warning" the Democrats how badly the passage of health care reform would hurt them at the polls in November. What can I tell you? They're beneath contempt.

Is this the perfect bill? Far from it. I am reminded of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. You've never heard of it either, huh? Don't be embarrassed if you haven't. It wasn't much of a law - a mere pittance, really. Nothing more that a dew scraps tossed out in order to appease the "American Negro" (in the parlance of that day and age). But its passage made the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the one we remember) a little easier to get though seven years later.

We'll live to fight another day.

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