Blake Ewing McIver, right, and his husband Emerson Collins are on tour with their show I Dreamed a Dreamgirl Husband-husband duo Emerson Collins and Blake McIver Ewing combine talents to take their dreams on tour RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer rich@dallasvoice.com The pandemic clearly sucks, and it has for more than two years now.
But big thanks are long overdue for all the creative types who still managed to provide entertainment during the dark days of COVID quarantine, whether from their living rooms or outside filming with their smartphones.
Staged readings, concerts, short films and theater pieces all had their Zoom moments in the last couple of years. But two performers turned their homegrown musical revue into a full-on tour.
Like all of us, Emerson Collins and Blake Ewing McIver were stuck at home in those lockdown months. But an opportunity came to the talented duo and real-life couple by way of the Public Theater of San Antonio. “Del [Shores] and I had done our Sordid Lives streams, so I was doing that.