A Fringe Quickie (#128) with ‘Soda Pop’

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Questions answered by Parker Callahan.

Q1: If you could take just one record with you to survive the Fringe — your ultimate comfort, hype, or grounding track — what would it be, and why?

As a professional gay guy it is my JOB to support women in music, and therefore I select Lady Gaga’s Venus as my guiding star track. “Aphrodite lady, seashell bikini. Garden panty.” These are what real lyrics look like, boys. Take a note.

Q2: What’s the temperature of your show?

I’m basically fully nude my entire show (and by nude I mean I’m clothed, but just a little bit), so I would say the temp of my show is that-first-really-warm-day-of-spring-when-everyone-is-violently-horny. Once again, I am fully nude* the entire show. *I am clothed.

Q3: If your show walked into a bar, what would it order?

You think the answer would be soda pop because the name of my show is Soda Pop, but you’d be wrong. My show would order a one hundred shot cosmo in a sugar rimmed, stripper-sized martini glass with a straw for everyone in the bar. It’s absurd, and we’re all in this together.

Q4: Is your show the type to leave a toothbrush — or just some wild memories and a dent in the pillow?

This show is a vacation hookup. It’s your last day in Cabo San Lucas, and baby, you’re lookin’ to have some fun. And while you may never see me again, I’m going to live in your brain, just like that parasite you got from drinking the tap water.

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Soda Pop

Date(s): Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug (25 shows)

Time(s): 10:05pm (60 mins)

Location: Venue 17: Assembly George Square Studios, George Square, EH8 9LH

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