A fun, family- friendly, gay-pride Musical Satire about how banning LGBTQ+ books, flags and story hours polarizes American small towns

Produced by Adirondack Insitute
Coming to Downtown Glens Falls, June 6 - 8, at the

(not a Wood Theater production)

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Starring Scarlet Sagamore, the original cancelled drag performer, as the Dream Queen!

See this original, topical, live musical comedy at the Wood Theater — after the Pride Festival — in downtown Glens Falls.

Join us for an exuberant, heartwarming, and wildly fun theatrical experience from the folks who brought you Nearby Faraway.

This musical brings the magic of storytelling to life in the most colorful way imaginable.

Inspired by the beloved Drag Story Hour movement and its backlash in small towns across the USA, this musical celebrates inclusivity, creativity, and the power of self-expression.

Ripped from the pages of last year’s national headlines, this wild ride is a microcosm of the hundreds of violent drag story hour protests that marginalize gay youth, pitting fundamentalist homophobes against woke Yoo-Hoos as they wrangle over free speech, religious intolerance, identity and inclusion, responding to hate with humor and hope.

With an all-star cast and melodic score, DQSHTM is pointed but never preachy, a rallying cry during Pride month to Be who you are!

See the Musical

A live, full-length, original musical satire

at The Wood Theater Cabaret, in downtown Glens Falls, NY

June 6-8, 2025
Fri-Sat @ 7:30
Sat-Sun @ 2:00

Adirondack Institute presents a sizzling cast of the best of Glens Falls’ musical theater talent,

including Jake Evans as Scarlet Sagamore, who flips the narrative of what happened to him,

from Being Bullied by Bigots with Bombs to B who U R!

Development

Inspired by the closing of Rockwell Public Library in 2023 and the discovery that hate groups violently protest drag story hours over 141 times a year nationally, Neal wrote and composed the first draft in a month, produced an audience-participatory reading of it at Crandall Library which garnered two front page stories — and then rewrote and polished it for a year with feedback from a trans comedian and a trans librarian who lived through the original events. He dedicates this production to Jake Evans and Claire.

What Pride Groups & Audiences Say About It:

Endorsements:

Upper Hudson Queer Alliance (the pride group created in response to the drag story protest)

“We are very happy to support this musical however we can!”

Skidmore Pride Alliance

“We are interested in seeing this musical!”

SUNY Adirondack Pride:

“This looks amazing! I hope that SUNY Adk Pride can make it a success. The club members are super interested!”

. . . with 250 Pride emails gathered so far!

Our Audience-Participatory Reading in Crandall Library in June garnered two front-page articles in the Post-Star and the Times Union, and 87% of the audience said the music was: “Beautiful, original, melodic, accessible, thrilling and well done, with a few outstanding numbers” and its lyrics were: “Catchy, tight, engaging and fit the music perfectly,” as well as “workmanlike, with a few outstanding turns of phrases.”

Private Donations so far:

Roslyn Rosen, Bernice Mennis, Beth & Barry Schropshire & the late Enid Mastrianni — OUR HEARTFELT THANKS

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