Domingo 13 Jul 2008, 16h:16

I just heard of Souvenir, "a fantasia" on the life and career and Florence Foster Jenkins, because a local company, American Stage in St. Petersburg, is staging it starting this week.

This is all in the Wikipedia article linked to above, but: It's a relatively recent play (off Broadway in 2004, Broadway in 2005) about a singer of questionable talent but sufficient fortune to buy her way into a series of recitals in Depression-era New York City. The act became a cult phenomenon, and she actually sold out Carnegie Hall in 1944.

I'll probably miss the show, though.