It's the Callatin County Summer Fair; and our hero Logan is dragging his best friend Briley to the festivities on the grounds that not only are there good funnel cakes, but there might even be some interesting women as well. Briley isn't convinced. He's missing the opening season kickoff, and - whoops! Who is that?
Dancer Andreya Kabalevskaya appears as part of the entertainment - well, it beats an 8 year old singing songs from Annie - and she captivates them both with her mysterious personality and her new dance, The Soviet Tango. Is she really a descendent of an Argentine mother and a Kazakhstani father or is she making the whole thing up?
It doesn't matter either way. Logan, a poet in his spare time, is entranced by her, and motivated to write about his love for her until he gets it perfect enough on paper to give her his heart in real life. Briley is entranced enough to ask her out - and at the next festival some time later, after Andreya introduces another new dance (this time she's Aztec), he and Andreya announce their engagement.
This of course seems a betrayal to Logan, as well as Andreya's best friend Sasha; much more earthy than her dancing counterpart and attracted to Briley's love of partying and football. Will poetry triumph over football? Has true love gone the way of LaToya Jackson's career? Eventually Logan and Briley square off, and Briley explain the obvious - Logan was too wrapped up in writing about live to actually life it.
Andreya, trapped between two close friends in love with her, is forced to make a choice. But can Logan leave his poetry and join the real world? Can true love triumph by the end of Act 2?
It's a musical comedy - you make the call.
The Soviet Tango features songs by Jerrold Rabushka. Bring the kids, bring grandma, bring a date; The Soviet Tango is recommended for a general audience.
