←Recommendations of ¡Oso Fabuloso & The Bear Backs!

I was lucky enough to see this in performance and wow. I was in a constant grin the entire performance. I felt like it was written for me and about me at the same time. Aside from feeling seen, I felt energized. I cheered. I screamed. This show hits on so many levels, encourages self worth, and reminds us that we all have a rock star within us when we need it.

This musical has REVOLUTIONIZED me! As a latino bear cub I never felt like my own life was valid enough to write a musical about. Well shit, I was surely wrong. I'm obsessed. I have a million words to say and only this little box to write them in. Oso Fabuloso belongs on Broadway! It deserves a million productions for the next hundred years across the world. I want all my latino gay bear singer friends to get a chance to play this role, and so many more in the future! Thank you for writing this beautiful musical Julian!!!!

OSO FABULOSO IS FUCKING FANTASTIC!!!
I just saw Jiménez perform it and I am blown away. Oso is a tremendous star vehicle for a Queer Latino Bear with a spectacular voice for rock vocals! The music is fabulous – high energy, a melange of styles, and hook after hook after hook – but the narrative is essential! Oso comes off like fierceness itself, but his reason for performing this very show comes from heartbreak. It's a lesson that even the fiercest among us are vulnerable to love, and even the most vulnerable need not be vanquished by it.

I really enjoyed this play and would love to see it on the stage I mean it has everything a gay man could want from life: bears, a musical, back-up singers called the Bear Backs, a therapist asking all the hard questions about Oso's love affair and the love affair itself that seems all too familiar for so many but done with the levity that only bears could provide!