Sweatpants Wedding is an unfinished musical about comfort and commitment. Stephan McCormick is its author. Tom Dibblee is “a friend of the project who happened to have the original idea and won’t go away.” Tom also…
This is the second installment of Advice for Sweatpants Wedding, a series of interviews that are part of a larger documentary project called Future Hit Musical Sweatpants Wedding, the subject of which is an unfinished stage…
Sweatpants Wedding is an unfinished musical with enormous financial and artistic potential. I started my Trop career as the producer of an audio advice column. “Advice for Sweatpants Wedding,” the series-within-a-series that begins now, is my…
Sweatpants Wedding is a future hit musical about love and loose pants. Writer Stephan McCormick hasn’t finished it yet. Idea-haver Tom Dibblee wishes he would. “Hollywood” has expressed interest. New songs are in the works. The play’s…
Dear Adam {Hoyt of Corona del Mar, California}, I’m writing to you in my official capacity as Musical Theater Correspondent for Trop, regarding future hit musical Sweatpants Wedding. [Well, Jake, it is, as it has ever been,…
You’ve read the first two scenes of Sweatpants Wedding. You’ve heard its first two songs. You’ve learned of its humble origins. You’re privy to the controversy over its authorship. You’ve felt the power of the mysterious woman…
It has been a tough couple of weeks for future hit musical Sweatpants Wedding. Two Wednesdays ago, in an effort to acknowledge and understand the project’s imperfections, we yielded our Tropspace to a known pants hater,…
For those of you who don’t know Patrick Benjamin, he wears khakis, sunburns easily, and runs social media for Trop. His official bio reveals that he is a “writer” based “near Los Angeles” who “lives with…
Stephan McCormick and I conducted a portion of this interview over email, which means that Stephan is now officially writing about Sweatpants Wedding. I consider this a positive development for two reasons: (A) Writing about Sweatpants…
This is the sixth installment in a what we expect will be a neverending behind-the-scenes look at the future hit musical Sweatpants Wedding. No need to read any previous installments. We haven’t made it past the…
Last week, Trop social media master Patrick Benjamin complained to our readership that the three-dimensional and ever-perplexing joke of a “musical” that is Sweatpants Wedding had gone on far too long. (Sweatpants Wedding is a play…
In this, Part 1 of “Sweatpants The Interview,” Jake de Grazia talks to Tom Dibblee about Sweatpants Wedding, the musical that’s nowhere close to done but that Tom insists on running in The Weather anyway, in…
I went to see Martin Sexton play in Hermosa Beach on Wednesday May 17th. The opening act was on when I arrived. Acoustic guitar. Striped shirt. Glasses. Marcus Eaton is his name. I thought he sounded…
When Trop first decided to have podcasts, one of our ideas was to record readings of Trop writers’ short fiction. This was a pretty natural thought. We are, after all, a collective of fiction writers. We had some other…
Ever told a fish story? Want to tell it again? I do. Right here. On this website. So email me: jake at tropmag dot com. This is our very first Tropcasted fish story. It’s a postcard…
There are three Thompson children. Michael, the youngest, won’t be back from Mexico until March. Justin, the oldest, missed Christmas because he had other obligations. And Kathy wishes she didn’t have to do this. It’s not…
A fictional story pretending to be a work of journalism within another fictional story that’s also sort of pretending to be a work of journalism? We’ve been wanting to get this project started since summertime. J.R.…