Well, at the very least, President Harding’s wife is a rock star.

The powerhouse vocals of Richelle Howie as Florence Harding are a highlight of Landless Theater’s lively but uneven production of the musical President Harding Is a Rock Star, an ironic tribute to a man widely considered one of the worst presidents in American history. And while Ms. Harding may well have been the force that got the incompetent Warren through two years of the presidency before his death, Howie just about successfully carries the weight of this show on her shoulders.

The play was first performed by the experimental troupe Les Freres Corbusier in 2003, the company who brought us another rock revisionist history piece, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which premiered in L.A. earlier this year and is slated to hit New York next year. That show made tapped into the energy of an MTV generation hungry for an authentic hero, and used shock value with hilarious results, as when Jackson and his wife, in goth teen fashion, bathe in each other’s blood to celebrate their love. President Harding…isn’t quite so poignant.