For You. Love, Me

“What do a pioneer, a 1950s elementary-school teacher, and a gay man have in common? Join Levi Hopkins as he explores three generations of a single family and the broken hearts that connect us through the ages. A touching, humorous, and heartrending look at the confined ways in which we love, how we learn to love, and how we heal from trauma and disappointment; turns out family history is a little more complicated than you thought. Mature audiences 18+.“

Birthed from researching how to combine a cabaret act with a one-person show, “For You. Love, Me” is a one-act, one-man, musical extravaganza. It features a live-band playing popular American standards such as ‘After You’ve Gone’, ‘Down With Love’, and ‘Witchcraft’. A treasure trove of letters kept by my Grandpa Doug that my Grandma Doug had written him while he served an LDS Mission in Holland during the 1950s, and the extensive journals of my ancestor Henry James Martineau, detailing his experience converting to Mormonism and the early days of Utah settlement, helped inform and flesh out the story. This show is a love letter to family, and to moving on.