Comments on: Gentrification & Ginger – The Musical

By: scum

scum — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:08:31 +0000

The Giants and The A’s play in The World Series again and a earthquake hits. Buildings on Valencia are crusjed, dreams are destroyed. People move away and rents drop. The End.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:40:08 +0000

yes times one zillion.

By: hoboking

hoboking — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:44:09 +0000

Yeah I don’t really see the uplifting coalition of the homeless, hardscrabble entrepreneurs/race war angle being believable. The love affair is fine, but otherwise that’s just too 1960′s radical theater.

I say either go passion play and bring in the Devil itself, or go more realistic.

Sam and Stacy are on the brink of success after having the homeless man beaten by local thugs and a street cart banning drive well underway when their landlord bumps up the rent on the storefront to an astronomical level forcing them out to replace the spot with condos and a Chipotle.

By: Sweet T

Sweet T — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:24:46 +0000

And then everyone moved to SOMA before it was cool.

(I already checked, and it looks like the url ‘somasoma.org’ is still available.)

By: jim bean

jim bean — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:37:34 +0000

Yes, the white Iowa husband falls for the hot latina who lives down the street..whos also married. They try to hide their desire for each other but alas, drama spills over when the latina becomes pregers and has to confront her angry lover. Vengence spills over as the affair sparks a community feud of latinos vs whites. Oh yes, there will be blood!

By: Whataperv

Whataperv — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:01:07 +0000

Yes, a Latina couple (two women) the same age as Sam and Stacy apply for essentially the same thing – they want to open a healthy taqueria to provide affordable, nutritious food to those who cannot afford a $13 hamburger. Born in the Mission, they scrimp and save working several jobs trying to realize their dreams. Despite having a good business plan and start up capital, they have trouble getting loans because of their lack of credit history (as juxtaposed to Sam and Stacy, who have no problem relying on their family and their good credit to get the money they need). Stymied by their lack of financial privilege, the two decide to start with a street cart, which they dutifully push up and down Mission street every day and night, trying to raise the cash, while also trying to provide relatively healthy soft tacos to the neighborhood. Act three ends when two angry Google employees with Stanford MBAs stumble drunkenly out of Sam and Stacy’s establishment and into the food cart, one of them burning themselves on the grill in the scuffle. This leads the drunken, white men to tell the two women to “Go back to their own countries.” The very end of the act shows Stacy and Sam down at City Hall trying to get “disruptive” food carts banned from the sidewalks in front of their business because they’re driving away paying customers and creating issues.

In Act 4, we see that the homeless veteran witnessed the whole exchange. For whatever reason (maybe because a new non-profit has opened down the street and he’s started receiving help from an NYU educated, Brooklyn born African American man), he decides to try to turn his life around and begins organizing a coalition of homeless and working class individuals to respond to the rampant gentrification of his neighborhood. The play climaxes when a protest in front of Sam and Stacy’s store is met with violence from a contingent of drunk partiers from Walnut Creek. The police are called and, as they’re about to arrest the lesbian Latinas, the homeless guy and everyone else assembled, Sam and Stacy emerge from their under-siege business and set the record straight – resulting in the arrest of the Walnut Creek partiers. This act of reconciliation paves the way for a partnership between Sam and Stacy and the latinas in a new restaurant on Valencia, newfound respect for the homeless man, who goes on to run for the Board of Supervisors, etc. etc.

Basically “Crash II: Mission Stories.”

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:35:17 +0000

Then a flashback to neighborhood in Ancient Babylon that is rapidly gentrifying. Nomadic sheep herders are angry at the boring, yuppie farmers.

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:28:50 +0000

You have an idea for a subplot?

By: Whataperv

Whataperv — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:00:34 +0000

Where the Latinas at?