In San Francisco, the atypical is typical – and San Franciscans are proud of it. It’s an urban melting pot on steroids – where hippies, drifters and dreamers rub elbows with make-a-buck immigrants and the top 1% of the “1%.” But, if the city is a metaphor for personal freedom, social revolution and pioneer spirit, its picture postcard reality is one dependent on resisting change. Thanks to the conflict between freedom and restriction – and maybe thanks to the San Andreas fault – the city’s inhabitants forever feel they’re on shaky ground. Poignant, whimsical and funny, Absolutely San Francisco is a musical allegory about the SF take on the American Dream. Writer-composer Anne Nygren Doherty plays 6 “typical” San Franciscans (3 men, 3 women) who ride a cable car together and get lost in a life changing fog. You will laugh, cry and come away deeply moved by the hidden bonds that tie these seemingly disparate people together.
