Group Sex Therapy hits Broadway and San Miguel
By Susan Page
If you want more love in your life or you just want to laugh with a world class comedian, don’t miss Daniel Packard’s The Live Group Sex Therapy Show this December 29 and 30 at the Shelter Theater.
Theater: Daniel Packard’s Live Group Sex Therapy Show. Thu& Fri, Dec 29 & 30, 8pm. Shelter Theater, Vicente Guerrero 4, Col. San Rafael. 200 Pesos. www.shelterVg4.com
Workshop: Where’s my Love? Sat& Sun, Jan 7 & 8, 2012. Lifepathretreats.com, www.danielpackard.com
Since he played here last year, he has been working all year with the producers of The Book of Mormon, who are opening his show in New York in the fall of 2012! This is your chance to be able to say, “I knew him before he made it big!”
Daniel Packard is hilarious, but what makes him unique is that he combines his lightning-fast wit with hugely helpful human insights that really do help people.
Daniel had all San Miguel buzzing (and laughing) when he was here last January, and people who missed the show definitely regretted it!
Susan Page: You’ve been to San Miguel five times already and people loved it, what’s new?
Daniel Packard: The big news is that my show was discovered by the producers of Wicked and Book of Mormon.
SP: That’s what I heard. Tell me the story.
DP: I’ve spent the last year in New York City polishing the show. Then at one of my small performances this guy walks up and says basically “I love your show, it’s entertaining, engaging, and can really help people.” It was such a nice compliment and I told him thank you. He handed me his card and said he is a producer. I was intrigued. I was even more intrigued, when I read the rest of the card and that said he was the producer of Book of Mormon. He then reached out and shook my hand and said, “I am your full investor and have all the resources and connections to take this all the way.” It was an incredible moment. Intrigue, turned to excitement, turned to delirium.
He came to the show four more times, I suppose to make sure what he saw the first time wasn’t a fluke. I guess it wasn’t a fluke because we are set to launch in New York in the fall of 2012. I feel like I am in some 1940’s movie where the big muckety muck, taps the bright-eyed newbie on the shoulder and says “We are taking you to Broadway kid.” It has all been pretty amazing, and very exciting!
SP: And tell me about the workshop you are doing here also.
DP: Yeah, very exciting. I am teaming up with the lovely and insightful Psychologist
Dr. Beverly Nelson at LifePath Center to do a love workshop called Where’s my Love?
SP: How is it different from your show?
DP: My background is as a dating and relationship coach. The theater show is fun, but it’s just the surface. The workshop will be fun and funny like the show, but with more time we can fully explore the concepts and give participants a richer, more impactful experience.
SP: You tour all over the world, why do you keep coming back to San Miguel?
DP: With some audiences I have to spoon feed basic emotional concepts, but here the people are already carnally curious and spiritually savvy. So the second I hit the stage, boom, we are joyfully frolicking in all the silliness of the human condition. Last year something happened at my San Miguel show that had never happened anywhere else. And this year I expect the same.
And while my show is fun for everybody, it is perhaps most helpful for empowering women to create the relationships they want. San Miguel is teeming with smart, successful women who want that extra edge on how to grow, or change what they are doing, to get the love and respect they crave and desire.
SP: So if you want to laugh and learn and also see you before you are a big Broadway star, people should definitely be there.
DP: Definitely. And, no matter what, I am coming to San Miguel for the street tacos. They are clear evidence God wants Jews to eat pork.
For details on the show and workshop go to: www.danielpackard.com or call 154-7524.
Susan Page, author of Why Talking is not Enough, and founder of the San Miguel Authors’ Sala.
