HEDWIG et al. Set for 2011/2012 Season at Who Wants Cake?

Who Wants Cake? is thrilled to announce its line-up of productions for the upcoming 2011-2012 season. Our 5th full season kicks off with a returning favorite, and continues with a hit musical, a holiday staple, a world premiere and, of course, men in women's clothing!

Returning to popular genres while exploring new territory, the new season promises to take Who Wants Cake? to new, artistic heights! All productions are to be performed at The Ringwald Theatre, located at 22742 Woodward Avenue in downtown Ferndale. For more information and to find out about ticket reservations, please call 248-545-5545 or visit us online at: www.WhoWantsCakeTheatre.com!

September 9-September 26, 2011
Southern Baptist Sissies by Del Shores

To commemorate our 5th season, we are bringing back our first big hit! To this day, people ask when we're bringing it back and here it is! Del Shores' play follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also includes two older barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter takes the audience from hysterical laughter to tragedy and tears. With a theme of religion clashing with sexuality, the play opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles during its original run and became the most awarded play of the year.

October 14-November 7, 2011
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Text by John Cameron Mitchell, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask

This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt (played by Vince Kelley), an East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." This outrageous and unexpectedly hilarious story is dazzlingly performed by Hedwig (née Hansel) in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch." It's a rocking ride, funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile.

November 25-December 19, 2011
Silent Night of the Lambs by Ryan Landry

A twisted take on two classic tales! Silent Night of the Lambs mixes one part thriller (The Silence of the Lambs) and one part holiday TV special (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) to create a twisted recipe. Rudolph's daughter Clarice is all grown-up. She's an FBI agent on the biggest case of her life. To enter the mind of a serial killer she must challenge the mind of a madman- a fat, jolly, bowlful of jelly madman (played by Dave Davies). Can she find The Skinner before he kills again without losing her sanity?

December 21-23, 2011
The SantaLand Diaries and Season's Greetings by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello

The delightful anti-holiday treat makes its return to the Ringwald stage for three performances only!

January 14-January 30, 2012
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner's Pulitzer prize-winning opus comes to The Ringwald in a stirring production!
"Daring and dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God." -Newsweek
Featuring Richard Payton, Matthew Turner Shelton, Jon Ager, and Laurel Hufano.

February 17-March 12, 2012
It's Liz-a-Palooza!
Elizabeth the Beautiful by Kim Carney
Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

In honor of Elizabeth Taylor's birth month, Who Wants Cake? presents two unique looks at both her life and one of her most famous roles.
In Elizabeth the Beautiful, acclaimed playwright Kim Carney tells the story of the famous actress and the significance (or insignificance) her beauty had on her life and her many loves.
Starring Joe Bailey as Elizabeth Taylor.
Suddenly Last Summer is the sordid tale of what is possibly the worst summer vacation ever.
Starring Marke Sobolewski as Catherine, the role played by Elizabeth Taylor in the acclaimed film.
These two shows will run in repertory.

March 30-April 22, 2012
Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet

At one of Hollywood's hottest studios, Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot client. Bringing the script to his friend Bobby Gould, the newly appointed Head of Production, both see the work as their ticket to the Big Time. The star wants to do it; and they prepare their pitch to the studio boss. Throw into the mix a temp who may or may not be all that she seems, a sexy bet, and a book about radiation and Speed-the-Plow is the perfect Mamet concoction!
Starring Jamie Warrow as Bobby Gould.

May 11-June 4, 2012
The Divine Sister by Charles Busch

This outrageous comedy pays homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica's indomitable Mother Superior (played by Joe Bailey) who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing "visions," sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows. This madcap trip through Hollywood religiosity evokes the wildly comic but affectionately observed theatrical style of the creator of Die! Mommie! Die! and Psycho Beach Party.

Who Wants Cake? opened the doors to their resident home, The Ringwald, in May 2007 with Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. Quickly, The Ringwald became a mainstay of Detroit's theatre community. Their first season offered up slice after slice of successful shows including Southern Baptist Sissies, Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical, Bug, Evil Dead: The Musical, RENT, The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, The Bad Seed, and Killer Joe. Who Wants Cake? was named 2009 Best Theatrical Troupe by Real Detroit and Best Place to See Local Theatre in 2009 and 2010 by the readers of Metro Times.

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