The West Wing cast reuniting for a Get Out the Vote HBO Max special, featuring Michelle Obama

Entertainment Weekly

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote will reunite Aaron Sorkin with 17 West Wing alums, including Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff and Bradley Whitford, for a special performance of the election-set Season 3 episode "Hartsfield’s Landing." The special will benefit former First Lady Michelle Obama's nonpartisan nonprofit When We All Vote, which is dedicated to getting people registered to vote. Obama is expected to make an appearance on the special, which will shoot at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theatre in October. "This is the first time we’ve done this in 20 years,” Sorkin explains, noting cast members and producers have supported individual causes in the past. “Never before have we gathered the cast onto (the show) logo in front of (W.G.) Snuffy Walden’s (theme) music and done something as The West Wing.... I don’t think anybody would argue that right now, if you have any capital at all, spend it.” As Deadline notes, "The West Wing reunion has long been in the works with (Richard) Schiff saying in June that the gang was getting back together in support of Black Lives Matter following the death of George Floyd. The crew have reunited in various forms, including at ATX in Austin, for The West Wing Weekly podcast, and for an ad for Bridget Mary McCormack, a candidate for Michigan’s Supreme Court. However, this is the first time that it will air on television."