Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes

See it if you like experimental performance theater - good acting, fine music, great voices, wild costumes all wrapped in a party/funeral/toast to WW.

Don't see it if Whitman's poetry set to music and performance acts does not interest you or if you are looking for a traditional play.

See it if Musical celebration/trial/funeral of gay poet,Whitman,by the gender-inclusive group that he represents.Averting hagiography, he's excoriated

Don't see it if The contradiction lies in embracing him through his poetry, then distancing his views from the soft-boil of the rest of the group.

Also "I celebrate myself," in this dark "Godspell."

See it if trip back to 70s experimental theatre sensibilities with taste of Duncan Sheik, Hedwig and even David Byrne. With fab cast of go 4 brokers

Don't see it if Hate experimental theatre, dislike anything new or different, or gay content or poetry or Leaves of Grass or Walt Whitman or cabaret

See it if Walt Whitman matters to you and quirky vitality turns you on

Don't see it if you want normal in any sense

See it if you enjoy/appreciate 60's era style performance art, strangely linked together but with earnest, mostly talented performers

Don't see it if you are into story, characters, and sensibility. This is quite "out there" and you need to be up for that.

Also Firstly, I greatly appreciated the talent of many of the performers, and the honest commitment they made to their storytelling. I know time and thought and money were put into the set and costumes, but the circus-type setup did not work for me. The warmup band I suppose was there to "warmup" the audience, but though fun and topical, I didn't get it.

I must confess to leaving at intermission; I felt I had devoted quite enough time to the project at hand. I also learned that performance art presentations are probably not my cup of tea. Yours? Enjoy!... Read more Read less

See it if you are interested in Walt Whitman and LGBTQ matters

Don't see it if if LGBTQ and PC turn you off

Also This starts as a Birthday party for Walt Whitman and morphs into a trial of his negative beliefs.
The singing is wonderful as is the music, but it goes a little too far with its PC.... Read more Read less