Jeremaia Detto: When I Grow Up

You might have seen a show like this before: a performer asks the audience to submit slips of paper detailing what they wanted to be when they grew up, and then riff on that to make a performance. While Jeremaia is hardly reinventing the wheel with this concept, “When I Grow Up” is a charming and joyous hour of play and silliness. I can hardly tell you what to expect from this show, since by its nature it’ll change drastically night on night, except to maybe warn you that if you wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid: so did half the audience. Detto makes great use of a stage full of props, and is great at quick thinking, improvisational clowning. 

Detto ends the show with a remark about how the world is hard at the moment, and asks if maybe what we all need is to just be kids for a while, to play and have fun. And I think he’s onto something there. “When I Grow Up” is good for the soul.