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Girlfriend
A world-premiere musical based on songs from Matthew Sweet's landmark album Girlfriend, except that the boy-meets-girl aspect of the songs becomes a boy-meets-boy story, with an all-lesbian quartet onstage. One of my favorite shows to have ever been involved with, and one of my favorite posters as well.
I shot the photo using a young friend and another friend of his (the two characters in the play have just graduated from high school). We shot it during a weekday at a local park, and for some reason there were a few kids not in school that day, riding their bikes around the park. From the way one of the kids kept staring, it seemed he could not believe he was seeing two guys holding hands in the bleachers. I wonder whether that will have turned out to be a defining moment in his life.
