Michael McLean’s “Threads” – LIVE ON STAGE!
Threads is a two-person show that celebrates the potential that women have to affect each other by example. Featuring Michael McLean portraying a man attempting to teach his granddaughter about examples she can follow by reminiscing about many women who shaped his own life. Co-star: Lisa Blaser.
About the event
SALT LAKE CITY — Some people go to Costco and come away with bulk foods. Songwriter/playwright Michael McLean goes there and comes away with the idea for his new two-person musical, “Threads.”
“I was there with my 2-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, Sadie,” he said, explaining that her real name is Proxeda Louise, “but I call her Sadie so she won’t have to be home-schooled.”
“We’re walking through Costco and we see the princess costume dresses,” McLean said. “And she has to have one of those dresses. When I finally relent and buy the dress for her, the joy in her face is so overwhelming I decide I’m going to buy her everything she wants for the rest of her life.”
Standing there in Costco, McLean says he had “this huge epiphany about women and clothes.” The music and lyrics of a song — “I’m Not Leaving ‘Til I’ve Got That Dress On Me” — started coming together in his mind.
“I started thinking about women and clothes,” he said. “In my mind I saw this fashion show, with all of these really amazing women I’ve known over the course of my life. They walk the runway of the fashion show wearing remarkably different things that reflect their lives. They are all beautiful in their own way, and their clothes become a metaphor for choices they’ve made as well as a device that allows them to sing about their lives.
“And I’m sitting there thinking, I want to give part of that outfit to Sadie,” McLean continued. “I want to get everything Sadie needs from these incredible women.”
The result of McLean’s epiphany is “Threads.”
“This show speaks to the audience that I understand about things that I care about deeply.”
– Michael McLean
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