Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gay Man represents the first work in Patrick Scully’s autobiographical series Somewhere Along the Rainbow. The play begins in Scully’s high school in the 1960’s and takes us on a journey through his school, college years, and into his early professional life in the arts.
This first work ends in 1980, having traversed the ups and downs of Patrick’s coming out story, his redirecting his studies from medical school to dance, and eventually founding a dance company as well as Patrick’s charting the victories and defeats of LGBTQ+ individuals, not only in Minneapolis/St. Paul but across the country.