A New Trump Parody Musical Has Michael Cohen’s Blessing

Good morning. Today we’ll look at an Off Broadway musical that Donald Trump’s onetime fixer will promote at a press preview this morning. We’ll also get details on a lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams that, in an unusual move, the City Council may join.

Today — the day when a judge may schedule a criminal trial for Donald Trump — the onetime fixer who figures in that case will promote an Off Broadway sendup of the former president and several women in his life.

The show, “Five: The Parody Musical,” centers on Trump; his two ex-wives; his current wife, Melania Trump; his daughter Ivanka; and Stormy Daniels, the porn actress whom the fixer, Michael Cohen, paid $130,000 to keep quiet about her story of an affair with Trump.

Cohen is to be the M.C. at a press preview this morning for “Five,” introducing cast members who will perform songs from the show. He said he had seen the script and had found it “clever and funny.”

The book and lyrics for “Five” were written by two gay men with Orthodox Jewish backgrounds — one a drag performer, the other a mortgage loan officer turned playwright and producer. The show took inspiration from “Six,” the high-energy Broadway musical about the wives of Henry VIII that the Times critic Jesse Green called “a Tudors Got Talent belt-off among six sassy divas.”