SOUVENIR Opens At ABET

SOUVENIR comes to ABET this March!

A wildly funny and surprisingly touching portrait of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy amateur opera singer whose disastrous concert at Carnegie Hall became the stuff of legends.

In a Greenwich Village supper club in 1964, Cosmé McMoon flashes back to the musical career of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy socialite with a famously uncertain sense of pitch and key. In 1932, she met mediocre pianist Cosmé McMoon, and the two teamed up in the hope of achieving success. Over the next dozen years, their bizarre partnership yielded hilariously off-key recitals that became the talk of New York, earned them cultish fame. The play culminates in a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall in 1944, where the audience "turns on her in gales of derisive guffaws."[

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Photo by Caryl Butterley of Amy Allen Farmer