So Long Boulder City
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Jordan Black
| So Long Boulder City | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Jimmy Fowlie Jordan Black |
| Based on | Unseen one-woman show from La La Land |
| Directed by | Jordan Black |
| Characters | Mia Dolan |
| Date premiered | July 21, 2017 |
| Place premiered | Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles |
| Genre | Comedy, satire |
So Long Boulder City is a one-woman play originally performed by Jimmy Fowlie and directed by Jordan Black.[1] It ran at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles between July 21 and September 3, 2017[2][3] and at the Off-Broadway Subculture Theatre in New York City from December 7, 2017 to January 7, 2018.[4] Co-written by Fowlie and Black, the play is a comedic spoof of the unseen one-woman show Mia Dolan writes and performs in the movie La La Land, and features Fowlie in drag as Mia.[4]
Fowlie first publicly floated writing So Long Boulder City in April 2017.[2] Fowlie and Black, both fans of La La Land, stated that they originally intended to do the show only once as a joke.[5] However, the show sold out its first four performances in Los Angeles within 72 hours.[2]
Mia Dolan tells the audience about her life, starting with her childhood in Boulder City, Nevada, and how she was inspired to become an actress by her Aunt Genevieve (who in fact was not an actress, and just had schizophrenia). She then discusses her time as a failing theater student at Boise State University, from which she dropped out, and her attempts to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. The play ends with Mia inviting her boyfriend Sebastian on stage to dance the Electric Slide with her, and Sebastian not showing. Mia then performs their joint dance routine by herself, and "skips" the last 90 minutes of the play where she had planned to ask Sebastian questions about their relationship.