Sketchfest Review: Julie Brown’s “The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical” at The Brava Theater, 1/24/15

The cast of Homecoming Queen's Got a Musical, courtesy of SF Sketchfest's Instagram (@sf_sketchfest)
The cast of Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical, courtesy of SF Sketchfest’s Instagram (@sf_sketchfest)

Every year when the SF Sketchfest schedule comes out I spend a long time going through, making a list of everything that has someone I like in it, or is a show/concept I like, then painstakingly narrow it down to one show per time slot per day. At least, that’s the goal. These are the best two and a half weeks in San Francisco and I’m not going to waste them! So in this process, when I saw the name Julie Brown, the late 80’s kid in me had a fangirl spaz and decided this was the show that deserved my attention for the first Saturday night of Sketchfest. Did I know anything Julie Brown did since “Just Say Julie” on MTV and Earth Girls are Easy? No. Of course not! (Well, other than her small role as the Gym Teacher in Clueless) But this is what Sketchfest is about, seeing that great thing you might have lost track of. So off I trekked into the wilds of the Mission District, to the Brava Theater, with no idea what I was in for. Continue reading “Sketchfest Review: Julie Brown’s “The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical” at The Brava Theater, 1/24/15″