Listen to people during intermission or leaving the theater, and you'll hear them relating their own horrific travel stories. The show captures a fun and painful time that is universal. Sadly, today this classic kids-in-the-station-wagon sort of vacation is becoming a thing of the past.
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The theater is dedicated to producing Midwestern plays.
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There is also a thread in the play about what it meant to be a son of a man from that generation. The quiet dad who never said much.
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Des Moines is part of the development story of this play. It was the first place it went on tour, it's a cornerstone of this (Midwestern) tour, and I'm very confident it's going to play all 50 states.
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We think we're bringing back a show that is infinitely superior than the one audiences saw last August.
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It's also kind of a tribute to the era of that universal road trip that everybody took.
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It's a really universal story.
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