The Big Gay Jamboree

About the show

Aspiring actress Stacey, with a musical theatre degree, finds herself trapped in a Golden Age stage musical in 1945 Bareback, Idaho, after getting black-out drunk the night before. As she tries to figure out a way to escape the seemingly never-ending nightmare of song and dance, Stacey befriends the local townsfolk, most notably the promiscuous Flora, the town music director Clarence, and Bert, the gay lumberjack. Through their time together, Stacey confronts the harmful tropes that bind these characters in the narrative world of musical theatre—namely homophobia, sexism and misogyny, and racism—shattering the rosy illusion of Broadway fantasy Stacey once believed in. In their mission to figure out how Stacey entered the musical world and return her to the present day, one that Mindelle herself affectionately calls a "millennial wizard of oz", the band of characters learn how express themselves freely and discover that there is more to the world than just the life inside of a 1940s musical.