The musical follows four Broadway actors lamenting their days of fame, as they travel to the conservative town of Edgewater, Indiana, to help a lesbian student banned from bringing her girlfriend to high school prom

The musical opens on Broadway, where Eleanor!: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story is celebrating its opening night with its lead cast members Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman ("Changing Lives"). The musical is bashed by The New York Times because Dee Dee and Barry are self-absorbed narcissists who do not understand their characters, and the show closes. To improve their image, the actors decide to take up "a cause" that will make them appear selfless. They team up with two other actors—Trent Oliver, a Juilliard School graduate down on his luck who has just been cast in the non-Equity tour of Godspell, and Angie Dickinson, a life-long chorus girl who just quit after 20 years in the musical Chicago. Searching on Twitter, they find Emma, an Indiana teenager whose prom has been cancelled because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as her date. Seizing the opportunity and some personal connection, the actors decide to go to Indiana to help ("Changing Lives (Reprise)").

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We started Queer Northshore in 2022 in hopes of building an LGBTQ+ community in a part of Louisiana where there wasn't one. Over the past 2 years, we’ve produced or facilitated nearly 100 events, recruited over two dozen LGBTQ+ people to join community boards and democratic committees, produced one of the largest protests in Northshore history and created the first LGBTQ+ krewe to parade on the Northshore. Our members are from St Tammany and beyond, representing many world views and religions, all age groups, and consists of LGBTQ+ people and allies. Together, we are building a better, more inclusive Northshore.

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Leyla Hekmatdoost

With immigrant parents from Canada and Iran, Leyla (she/her) grew up in Mandeville and moved to Covington after attending LSU for undergrad and grad school. Since moving to Covington, Leyla has been a public school teacher, a mother of four, a parenting and family educator at St. Tammany Parish Hospital Parenting Center, a leader in the secular homeschool community, a professional photographer, an activist for LGBTQ+ rights, and is currently the executive director of Twin Steeples, a non-profit community arts center in Ponchatoula.

Erica Radosta

Erica Radosta (she/her) is forklift-certified and was awarded employee of month multiple times during her 11 year career at Whole Foods Market. Currently she does freelance work in creative projects and manual labor, notably for a farm-to-table CSA service at a local dairy and vegetable farm. She enjoys hammering away at the ongoing rehab of her beloved home, quality time with her squad of incredible women, and standing in the yard waving at people when they go by. Erica identifies as a late-in-life queer, although her gay core memories date back to 1994: an obsession with Icebox from Little Giants and watching Michelle Pfieffer climb that ladder in Grease 2. Erica co-parents her two great kids with their loving dad. She takes seriously the opportunity to represent aspects of queer culture within the Northshore’s dominantly heteronormative parenting community.

Marc Settembrino

Marc Settembrino (they/them), Associate Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University, tirelessly champions LGBTQIA+ inclusivity on campus since 2013. Serving as adviser for StandOUT/Lavender Lions, they mentor emerging queer and trans leaders and spearhead events like National Coming Out Day and Lavender Graduation. Outside academia, Marc's drag persona "Tuffy Love" confronts anti-trans/queer politics, hosting shows promoting queer joy and equality, fostering a healthier campus environment. Reflecting on Tuffy's impact, a student remarked, "Drag events provide inclusivity for LGBTQIA+ students." Marc views Tuffy as embodying the audacity of queerness, living life on their own terms.

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