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The Hot Dog Manifesto
The hot dog is a worldwide phenomenon. The hot dog is American, yet there are citations of grilled glistening hot-dog-like meats written about in Homer’s Odyssey. Hot dogs exist in various cultures. A hot dog is a mystery meat—it is a risk, we don’t know what we are really consuming—like life we take a chance. The hot dog, like many of us, is an amalgamation of many things that come together uniquely. The Hot Dog is a guilty pleasure—many lie about how many of them they eat in a year. The hot dog is a precooked meat yet it needs “The Grill” to reveal its flavor. The hot dog is cooked and grilled by the world that surrounds it—like us, it bears the burdens and the scars of its experience. That Show About The Hot Dog utilizes original choreography, poetic musings, dynamic acting, original music, mechanized toys, hand-crocheted puppets, whimsical song, and a vast array of hot dog-inspired costumes to tell the story of Wee Weenie Wiener (WeeWee) and She She, two unlikely hot dog heroes searching for inner hot dog truth—what it means to be a “hot dog”?

