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09.04 – 10.06.2024
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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.
Performance Information
Theatrical Haze • Strobe Lighting Effects • Loud Music • Loud Sound Effects • Gunshot Sound Effects Content Advisory: This production contains staged violence, mature content, sexual content, and profanity. Age Recommendation: 12+ All Geffen Playhouse productions are intended for an adult audience; children under 10 years of age will not be admitted.
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The Dragon Cycle is a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about Sara Porkalob's Filipina American gangster family, with one play for each generation built around a central female protagonist.
07.07.2024 / Daily Bruin