Sex and games in Brooklyn Parkā gotta be played with flare and passion! Songs and dance at Chesapeake Arts (Center)ā gotta be played with flare and passion! Welcome to Falsettoland! Itās so much more than just a āmarch of the Falsettosā itās the whole damn showā Falsettosā a half-decade in the making for The Maryland Theatre Collective, currently in residence at CAC. This brilliant production is the perfect close to their first,
āItās a song I was waiting to hear so long, so long ago.ā
Five years in the makingā a show that was planned and cast and ready to go before the pandemic, now finally appearing on the Maryland Theatre Collective Stageā Falsettos is rounding out MTCās first full season in production and itās a proper doozy well worth investigating! In a few minutes following their sitzprobe, Director and Musical Director Rachel Sandler and Associate Director and Performer Tommy Malek sat down to discuss the production and how thrilled they both are to finally be getting it up on its feet for an audience in 2024.
In a time in our history when yet again we are faced with a growing divide of āusā vs āthem,ā we are challenged to ask ourselves if the old proverb about how a āhouse divided against itself shall not standā is indeed truth.Ā Suzan-Lori Parksā play The Book of Grace, making its Baltimore debut with Rapid Lemon Productions, tackles that notion.
Before continuing, a warning: this production contains depictions and descriptions of domestic violence,