Fruit Fly: The Musical – Jansonowicz Players

(Because Fag Hag: The Musical is so 1970s. And Queer Peer, let’s face, was never going to catch on.)

“An autobiographical tale about a gay man and a straight woman.”
“Can you tell which one is which?”

Can a gay guy and a straight girl – a fruit and a fly – “quit each other” to find true love? Find out in this brand-new musical filled with laughter, Sondheim references, and enough boxed wine to kill us all!

The performers here, Sheena Janson and Max Wojtanowicz (there he is again), are so relentlessly cute I find it hard to resist either them or their show. So I won’t try. The “Two Peas In A Pod” number should have made me more than a little crazy (but see note above on cuteness). Also, the lyrics here are pretty darn clever. Cole Porter would feel right at home. You might even make Sondheim smile. Is this autobiographical musical pastiche going to amount to much? Hard to say. But I’d give them an hour to make their case, and try not to overthink it too much.