Well hello, Dolly. The Lumber Yard, White Centerโ€™s pluckiest gay bar, is back after enduring a terrible fire and doors are opening with aplomb: The bar is hosting a good old-fashioned three-hour musical sing-along, which is either the most exciting thing youโ€™ve ever heard or the most horrifying, depending on whether or not youโ€™re my kind of people.

Yeah, yeah, itโ€™s a Monday night, and you probably have to be up early for work the next day. But donโ€™t you think your coworkers would rather you come in a bit groggy but with a song in your heart, rather than full of regret for having missed this ball of butter? Everyone deserves a chance to fly, so brush up your Shakespeare and belly up to the bar, boys.ย 

The re-debut of Show Tunes Sing-Along is Monday, September 19, from 7 to 10 pm at The Lumber Yard… and then for several days afterward, as you try to replicate Adele Dazeemโ€™s Tarzan-yell from Wicked everywhere you go.

Matt Baume covered geek culture, queer news, and city infrastructure, and would leap at the flimsiest of excuses to write about furries. A writer, podcaster, and videomaker, he resides on Capitol Hill...