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Souvenir

 

Stephen Temperley

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November 22 – December 11, 2011
Riffe Center Studio Two Theatre

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins fancied she could sing. Forget that she had no sense of rhythm or pitch, and was barely able to sustain a note– she was convinced that she had talent! Instead of being deterred by a 1943 taxicab crash she “realized” she could sing “a higher F than ever before!” Her accompanist and confidante, Cosme McMoon, attempted to protect her from herself to no avail. A diva in her own mind, she insisted on renting Carnegie Hall for a dazzling, costume- festooned benefit concert. Jenkins’ quest illuminates the silliest and most poignant of human foibles — our own often skewed vision of who we are.

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