“All the world’s a stage” never seems more true than when applied to politics, a realm full of bombastic characters, combative speeches, valorous victories, and ruinous defeats, all well-matched to the theatrical flair of Shakespeare’s best. The shifting allegiances of Caesar? Sure. The tragedy of Lear? Of course. The palace intrigue of the Richards and Henrys? Naturally. But an Iowa stage production goes in a different direction altogether, taking the ludicrousness of the 2020 Presidential race to task by parodying it in the style of the award-winning Broadway darling “A Chorus Line.”

With the Iowa caucuses on the horizon and almost a dozen candidates still battling for dominance in a glutted field, “Adore Us! Line” offers a kind of mirror universe of music and dance. A fictional Joe Biden, wearing a clownishly large tie, pleads, in song, for an Iowa voter to trust in him. Other campaigners are in attendance, too, introducing themselves with winsome lyrics and tongue-in-cheek speeches: Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg—the latter looking especially youthful. (“I’m fourteen,” the actor Ryan Henzi, who plays a miniature mayor of South Bend, says.)

But how will this group of faux-Presidential chorus-line actors, living in the state that’s known as ground zero for the democratic scrimmage, vote? Heidi Mason, who plays Klobuchar, said that she started rehearsals as a Buttigieg fan but then started leaning toward the Minnesota senator whom she portrays. Henzi, too, though a couple years shy of being allowed access to the polls, fell for the candidate he plays. “Well, I have watched a lot of Pete Buttigieg, so I might be a little bit biased toward him,” he said. Joe Smith, who plays Bernie Sanders (“I am principled but pissed,” he sings in the impassioned, impatient cadence of the progressive candidate), was also decided—for the Vermont senator, he hinted. His wife, Mary Bricker, who’s also in the show, as Elizabeth Warren, was not yet decided.

“This time feels different,” Bricker offered, explaining her hesitancy about whom to support in the race. But, donning a blond bob, wire-rim glasses, and, of course, a cardigan the bright shade of a cartoonishly ripe citrus fruit, Bricker attended a Warren campaign event to meet the senator face to face. “Just meeting someone in person tells you more about them,” Bricker said. She had an emotional meeting, Lands’ End cardigan to Lands’ End cardigan, with Warren. Last month, she and Mason declared their support for Warren on their Facebook pages.

We may not see Biden or Sanders doing any “step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch” anytime soon (probably best for both septuagenarians’ sakes, as well as our own). And in reality, with Iowa caucusers readying their votes, there’s plenty of tension and democratic discord. But, on at least one Iowa stage, politics is meant to be a show, something with low stakes, high kicks, and maybe a few jazz hands.