Yeti or Not: A Bigfoot Musical

Yeti or Not: A Bigfoot Musical A new musical comedy about grief, belief, and Bigfoot.

06/03/2026

If you’ve spent any time around marketing, storytelling, or theater people, you’ve probably heard the phrase “the pope in the pool.” The idea is simple: if you need to sneak information into a story, don’t stop the story to explain it. Put the pope in a swimming pool and let people enjoy the spectacle while they absorb the information.

Which brings us to this distinguished gentleman.

This is a Fowler’s toad, known for looking remarkably like a grumpy potato. Despite appearances, he’s actually a skilled nocturnal hunter and will often return to the same territory year after year. Tonight he was making his rounds through our backyard, doing the important work of keeping the insect population in check while looking mildly inconvenienced by the entire experience.

And while you’re watching a toad wander around a patio, absorbing random amphibian facts you didn’t know you needed, you’ve also accidentally learned that the song playing underneath this video is “Just Behind the Rain” from Yeti or Not: A Bigfoot Musical.

The pope is in the pool. The toad is in the yard. The marketing appears to be working.

06/02/2026

Most musicals start with a pretty simple question:

Will these two people end up together?

Yeti or Not starts somewhere else entirely.

It starts with a nine-year-old boy who loses his dad under circumstances nobody can fully explain. Twenty years later, he’s still carrying that loss around like unfinished business. He’s got a stable job, a routine, and a life that looks fine from the outside. But deep down, he’s been standing still for a very long time.

Then a map shows up.

And suddenly he’s heading into the Pacific Northwest chasing a mystery that most people would laugh at.

At the same time, a young woman who’s spent most of her life staying quiet, staying safe, and staying out of the spotlight is handed an opportunity she never expected. The kind of opportunity that requires her to become someone she’s not sure she’s capable of being.

Neither of them set out to become heroes.

Neither of them wake up one morning feeling brave.

But sometimes courage isn’t confidence. Sometimes it’s taking the next step when you’re scared, grieving, uncertain, or convinced you’re not enough.

At its heart, Yeti or Not isn’t really about Bigfoot.

It’s about the stories we inherit.

The people we lose.

The dreams we postpone.

The lies we believe about ourselves.

And what happens when we finally decide to move forward anyway.

Also, for the record, someone does meet Bigfoot.

And there really is a deer named Steve.

05/28/2026

We had such a good time sharing our story with . What are the first questions we usually get is what’s the musical inspiration behind Yeti or Not? Or what other shows does Yeti or Not sound like? He was a pretty great explanation of everything that went into and the heart behind the music for Yeti or Not.

With inspiration like Once, Newsies, Come Arom away, The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Noah Kahan, how could you go wrong?

Please go check out the full demo album and let us know what you think. What’s your favorite song from the album?

05/26/2026

Sat with this one for a minute. The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or the frequency illusion. It is a cognitive bias where, after noticing something for the first time, like a new car model, you start seeing it everywhere, making it feel more common, even though you are just paying more attention to it.

That’s definitely been happening over the last three years while we’ve been writing Yeti or Not: a Bigfoot Musical. Everywhere you look there Bigfoot is…not that I mind. He’s charming and comforting kind of like if Chewbacca was your grandfather.

Has that ever happened to you? If so, when?

05/25/2026

This song is called here in the office. It’s from our new musical comedy about grief. belief, and Bigfoot called Yeti or Not. Henry isn’t just pulled into the wilderness the drive Monday office life is also a push away from the life. He’s settled for if you’ve ever found yourself in a similar place this song is probably gonna resonate pretty deeply. If there’s a job you couldn’t wait to leave shared in the comments!

05/23/2026

This show is going to hit you in the feels just as much as it makes you just a gut. It’s a fun show that wakes a serious look at how to grieve losing someone close to you. What does it mean to honor them and their legacy? How do you move forward but not lose them? If any of this resonates, you’ll love this show! Go check out the full demo album on our website, yetiornotmusical.com (link is in bio).

05/20/2026

We know this may sound fake.

“A folk-rock musical comedy about grief, belief, and Bigfoot” feels like the kind of idea two singer-songwriters and a theatre kid would joke about at 1am and never actually finish.

Except…we did.

And somewhere between the Americana guitars, the weird comedy, the emotional gut punches, and a young man wandering into the woods looking for something bigger than himself…Yeti or Not became the project we toiled over for the next 1,000 days.

The funniest part is that people keep finding different reasons to connect with it.

Some people come for the cryptid chaos.
Some people come for the comedy.
Some people come for the music.
Some people come because they’ve lost somebody too.

And somehow all of those things exist in the same show.

So yes.
In case Disney sees this:
we have a new musical.

It has Bigfoot.
It has heart.
It has folk-rock Americana vibes.
It has deeply unserious moments immediately followed by emotional damage.

And we think theatre needs more weird original stories again.

05/19/2026

Most people only see the exciting part of making something creative.

The announcement posts. The finished songs. The big moments where everybody suddenly cares.

What they don’t see is how much of it is built in ordinary hours.

Friends on a FaceTime call before sunrise.
Rewriting the same scene again because “good enough” still doesn’t feel honest.
Laughing so hard you completely lose the plot.
Sending voice memos.
Cutting songs apart.
Putting them back together.
Trying to make something that actually says what you mean.

I think people assume creative projects survive because of inspiration.

But most meaningful things survive because somebody quietly keeps showing back up for them.

Before work.
After work.
In stolen hours.
Over years.

And somewhere along the way, the thing slowly becomes real.

That’s been one of the strangest and coolest parts of building Yeti or Not.
Not the giant moments.
The consistency.

The realization that 1,000 days later… we’re somehow still here.
Still rewriting.
Still laughing.
Still trying to make something honest enough to matter.

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