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Colleen Kruse says the easiest way to tell a joke is to tell your life, which is why so many of her performances sound like aural memoirs. Her latest piece, on stage at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis, is called 

. It's about a month she spent in 1989, as a homeless single mother in one of St. Paul's toughest neighborhoods.

Colleen Kruse says the easiest way to tell a joke is to tell your life, which is why so many of her performances sound like aural memoirs. Her latest piece, on stage at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis, is called Thirty Days in Frogtown. It's about a month she spent in 1989, as a homeless single mother in one of St. Paul's toughest neighborhoods.


Colleen Kruse returns to Frogtown

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