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WHEN:
September 12 - October 6, 2024
WHERE:
Gil Cates Theater at Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
CAST:
Pete Irving, Jimmy Austin & Mickey Stylin
CREATIVE TEAM:
Written and performed by Sara Porkalob
Directed by Andrew Russell
Scenic Designer Randy Wong-Westbrooke
Lighting Designer Spense Matubang
Sound Designer Erin Bednarz
Original Music & Lyrics Pete Irving
Production Stage Manager Nick Carvalho
Assistant Stage Manager Rebecca K. Hsia
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...On the eve of her 60th birthday, Maria Porkalob Sr. fires up her new karaoke machine to regale her granddaughter Sara with her astonishing life story. As a lounge singer who escaped a gangster-controlled nightclub in Manila to become a free-range mother of five in the United States, Maria is a matriarch not to be trifled with. Broadway star and storyteller Sara Porkalob embodies dozens of characters in a trigenerational tour-de-force performance that fuses killer karaoke with laugh-out-loud comedy to tell her family’s incredible origin story…"
