CURTAIN CALL: Around the world in Philly plays

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages. This week: Two trips to Ireland, a misguided soprano at Center City Theater Works and pay-to-pee bathrooms at Drexel.

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CURTAIN CALL: Around the world in Philly plays

POSTED: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 3:00 PM

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages. This week: This week: Two trips to Ireland, a misguided soprano at Center City Theater Works and pay-to-pee bathrooms at Drexel.

She had no rhythm and couldn’t find a pitch, but Florence Foster Jenkins was determined to have a musical career. So she did, packing Carnegie Hall solely due to her lack of talent. It’s not like Madame Flo was fooling anyone (before Auto-Tune, talent was far harder to fake), so much as she truly thought her voice was a gift to the world. Curtis grad April Woodall, whose vocal skills are nothing to be trifled with, plays Flo in Center City Theatre Works’ production of Souvenir. Using narration by Jenkins’ pianist Cosme McMoon (Jeffrey Lesser), the two-man show explores the vulnerability that may lie under Flo’s mistakenly confident exterior.

May 2-19, $14-$22, The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-732-3797, centercitytheatreworks.org.

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