This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I talk venue safety and dramatic substance, or the lack thereof.

It was a bit heart-breaking to sit through one of Richard O’Brien’s trademark Rocky Horror musical numbers. No, I don’t mean “Time Warp,” I mean “I’m Going Home.” The song has always been an outlier in O’Brien’s hilariously hedonistic musical: Whereas most of the other numbers are defined by off-the-wall excess and building crescendos, “I’m Going Home” is a sad ballad about realizing the party’s over, but trying to celebrate that it happened at all, rather than mourn its ending. It’s no wonder that the song is occasionally covered by other musicians (including Misfit Cabaret’s Kat Robichaud) as an out

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