"A show for Sobule fans, and for a queer audience, but it’s also for the many nerds who grew up to be the cool people."
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"The show is unsentimental, humorous, and gently weird: a tribute to all the oddballs still haunted by former selves."
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Jill Sobule's new show is just like her: sly, sweet, disarming, musically gifted, and often hilarious. Best-known for 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl," she has flown under the radar in recent years; now she is ready to tell all about the road to her brief moment in the sun. This musical memoir, performed by the singer and the members of her band Secrets of the Vatican -- a name that gives you a good sense of her deliciously flaky sense of humor -- is a modest, unalloyed delight.
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"You don’t have to be a pre-devoted, certified fan to be captivated. If you are, though, you’ll get all that you came for and more."
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Whether you know the songs of Jill Sobule or not, she and her band are excellent company. The show also makes the point that is not often made that we are shaped in middle school where most of us feel like failures and envy everyone else. Aside from the show’s explicit title, the musical with its book by Liza Birkenmeier, author of "Dr. Ride’s American Beach House," and its score made up of the hits of Jill Sobule is both sweet and tender in this coming of age story and what came after.
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“Directed by Lisa Peterson, Sobule shares her life story thus far, cleverly drawing upon her stultifying days in seventh grade as a jumping-off point to examine her life beyond middle school.”
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