ROGUE REVIEW: I Was a Sexually Confused Teenager
Tony Imperatrice’s “I Was a Sexually Confused Teeanger” is a worthy follow-up to "Confessions of a Church Organist,” his 2007 show.
Once again, Imperatrice is exposing his own vulnerabilities, this time while exploring the idea of sexuality for coming-of-age adolescents.
Along the way, he riffs about getting his sexual education from Fresno Unified School District in the ’70s, his gay-fearing father and his “you-should-only-have-sex-to-procreate” grandfather. We also get the bullet points of Imperatrice's sexually rambunctious resume: The gay friend who came on to him, the first girl he slept with, the abusive older woman, the therapist and “a MILF named Diane.”
Imperatrice is a dynamic performer, offering stuff to make you laugh, to make you think, to make you empathize. He tops it all off with organ playing and singing. The whole package comes together nicely, one story building upon the next, the laughs complementing the songs.
If phrases like “pecker tracks” offend you, though, you might want to stay away from this. But if those two words mades you chuckle, then just know Imperatrice has got more where that came from.
Playing: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8:45 p.m. Friday at Ashtree Studios, 1035 N. Fulton St. Cost: $4. Rating: R.


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