(Retrospective, April 2025)

I had been to a few shows here and there and enjoyed them well enough, but it wasn’t until Gavin Creel died - whom I only knew, yes, actually, from watching and rewatching the Eloise TV movies as a kid in Nebraska - that it occurred to me that maybe I was wasting an opportunity living so close to Broadway.

Then Donald won again. I hate letting politics get to me, but I was stressed out about it, and I needed to get out of the house. I picked this show (which, in retrospect, is a bit of an oldie and kind of a weird one to get hooked on) because I recognized it from when a bunch of my friends were in it in high school and Ana Gasteyer from Saturday Night Live was in it.

Then Sutton plinked me in the forehead with a grape, and I was so jolted by the experience that I was compelled to see 100 more shows in the following 6 months, and my brain chemistry was permanently altered, so I guess all things considered I would say it was pretty good.

Shelling out for the signed poster (now framed on my wall) was a nice little bit of inadvertent foresight. (I took Sutton’s spit-covered grape all the way home too before I figured out it was a real one and not rubber)

July 25–August 2, 2025 @ Armory Arts & Events Center, Park Rapids, MN