Dad’s Garage Cuts Out Bacon In Favor Of ‘Big Stupid Parking Lot Carnival’

Atlanta’s Dad’s Garage Theatre Company is known for putting on raucous and funny shows and for attracting celebrity guests to improvise with them. Over the years, they’ve also come to be identified with copious amounts of one particular breakfast item: bacon.

But after 15 years, they are hanging up their annual BaconFest and the ton of meat that came with it. In its place, they are hosting a party they’re calling the Big Stupid Parking Lot Carnival.

“We made the switch after looking in the mirror after enough years,” Dad’s artistic director Kevin Gillese tells “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes. “We just thought ‘OK, is this the most responsible way for us to be partying down?’”