We sent Lauren Lancaster to photograph the revival of Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man,” a play about three men running for President, starring James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, and Eric McCormack, of “Will & Grace.” I asked Lancaster, who has recently photographed Ron Paul and Mitt Romney for the magazine, how it compared to some of her actual political shoots. “Of course, there’s a lot of crossover with theatre and politics,” she said. “The most striking similarity for me was the waiting and the repetition. While photographing the Republican primaries over the past few months, it sometimes amazed me that the candidate would give the same ‘off-the-cuff’-style speech in town after town, regardless of the sometimes vast demographic differences.” Here’s a selection of Lancaster’s photographs:
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