Leave your Shame at the Door

NO SHAME: The Soft Rock Sing-Along!
Tonight at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

You know that feeling when you're walking around in the grocery store and they're playing some sort of super safe consumer soft rock so that no one feels threatened and everyone can keep buying their frozen dinners in peace when suddenly that one song comes on and you catch yourself singing along lightly under your breath only to realize that the other people in the aisle are looking at you and kind of shaking their heads in disbelief that you'll actually admit liking Phil Collins in public that much? Yeah. This Sing-Along is like saying a great big, "Fuck you" to those haters in the grocery store. The songs that you took off your iPod's general playlist for fear that they'd come on the shuffle while you're driving along with that new beau you're trying to impress? THAT'S ALL THAT'S IN THIS SHOW.

The song you listen to on repeat in the middle of the night when you're lying on your couch staring at the ceiling and wondering how you ended up being the empty shell of a person you are now after feeling so much promise and potential when you were a teenager and first discovered that ballad? Well, I'll never admit which song that is for me, BUT IT'S IN THIS SHOW, TOO. Along with Billy Joel, Elton John, U2, the Police and all of your other Adult Contemporary favorites. And if that makes your eyes well up just a little bit, just let those tears flow down your cheeks, man, because this show is all about NO SHAME. (Henri Mazza)

Tickets here