What the heck! I went to grade school with someone in this. (That’s probably not that weird for some of you, but I grew up in Nebraska!) I didn’t even know until he walked out on stage. Small world. I’ll recuse but in general I thought it was pretty cute.

As a note for the entire festival, you gotta mic people up if you’re going to thrust-stage a musical—there were some parts of this and the others that I just couldn’t hear very well because they were singing away from me.