Inspired by my own relationships with my mother and my husband, this show has quickly become my most personal. My parents divorced when I was a kid and my mom and I have since had a relationship more akin to “Husband and Wife” than mother and son. After all three of us were forced to quarantine together during COVID, I realized I couldn’t continue to be in two marriages at once, hence the opening number became “Divorcing My Mother To Marry My Husband.”

The story begins on the eve of my 36th birthday at my mother’s home in Miami. After losing her house in a hurricane, then breaking her hip, my mom needed me full time to help put her life back together. But after three years of this, something needs to change if I’m to keep my sanity, and that something is me proposing to my Italian boyfriend and moving with him to Italy.

As you can imagine, this news doesn’t sit well with my mother and all hell breaks loose. As we begin what feels like a fight for the ages, a hurricane hits and sweeps us and the house into a fantastical version of the Everglades. Pulling from The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice and Wonderland, and directly inspired by the two times my mom’s house was destroyed by hurricanes, this wild adventure story forces us to come to terms with our relationship once and for all and realize what matters most. It’s a story of boundaries, inner demons, and unshakeable love that only parents and children can share.