A rock musical about the seventh president of the United States? Who are they kidding? No one. For 100 minutes, the audience was transfixed at seeing American history played out in a gleefully anachronistic way, using modern language, musical styles, references, and profanity to explain what most of us probably slept through in eighth grade. Andrew Jackson is portrayed as a man driven by anger and hatred: of elites, of Native Americans, of Easterners, of just about anyone who has what he wants or won't bend to his way of thinking. Jackson pushed a policy of manifest destiny 70 years before the term was coined, seizing land from the Spanish, the French, and Indians, all in the name of American expansion. The cast is uniformly superb, with everyone (except Nick Lingnofski, who is outstanding as Jackson) playing multiple parts, but standouts include Ian Short's turn as Jackson's Indian friend and cat's paw, Black Fox; Drew Eberly as Martin Van Buren; and Amy Rittberger as Jackson's wife, Rachel. Given Available Light's policy of pay what you can, you have no excuse to miss this show, except the fact that it closes this coming weekend (October 14). Be there or in three months, you'll be claiming you WERE there!