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OVERVIEW

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

Running Time
1 hour and 50 minutes, including one intermission.
Warnings

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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“honest, authentic, and heartfelt” “Expect to be blown away” “uncensored fearlessness” “Dragon Lady is right up there with the best” “Grandma's a badass” “stunning” “heartfelt” “Sara Porkalob's talent onstage is undeniable” “flawless” “touching” “solo dynamo sara porkalob breathes fire” “on fire” “masterclass in storytelling!” “honest, authentic, and heartfelt” “Expect to be blown away” “uncensored fearlessness” “Dragon Lady is right up there with the best” “Grandma's a badass” “stunning” “heartfelt” “Sara Porkalob's talent onstage is undeniable” “flawless” “touching” “solo dynamo sara porkalob breathes fire” “on fire” “masterclass in storytelling!” “honest, authentic, and heartfelt” “Expect to be blown away” “uncensored fearlessness” “Dragon Lady is right up there with the best” “Grandma's a badass” “stunning” “heartfelt” “Sara Porkalob's talent onstage is undeniable” “flawless” “touching” “solo dynamo sara porkalob breathes fire” “on fire” “masterclass in storytelling!”
“honest, authentic, and heartfelt”

— Splash Magazines

“Expect to be blown away”

— StageSceneLA

“uncensored fearlessness”

— Los Angeles Times

“Dragon Lady is right up there with the best”

— Politics Money Culture

“Grandma's a badass”

— Stage and Cinema

“stunning”

— The Hollywood Times

“heartfelt”

— We Live Entertainment

“Sara Porkalob's talent onstage is undeniable”

— LA Theatre Bites

“flawless”

— Stage Raw

“touching”

— TheaterMania

“solo dynamo sara porkalob breathes fire”

— Broadway World

“on fire”

— Curtain Up

“masterclass in storytelling!”

— Larchmont Buzz

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