Who Wants Cake? Starts Fifth Season With Southern Baptist Sissies 9/9

In honor of our fifth season at The Ringwald, Who Wants Cake? will revive its first big hit, Southern Baptist Sissies, at Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre for an exclusive 3 week run beginning Friday, September 9th. Written by Del Shores, Southern Baptist Sissies will play Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm and Sunday afternoons at 3pm through September 26th.

Please Note: Southern Baptist Sissies contains nudity and adult situations.

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, Southern Baptist Sissies opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles during its original run and became the most awarded play of the year, winning the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding LA Theater Production, as well as multiple LA Weekly Theater Awards, Los Angeles Critics Awards, Ovation Awards, BackStage West Garland Awards.

Southern Baptist Sissies opens Friday, September 9th and plays through Monday, September 26th at 8pm on Friday, Saturday and Monday nights with 3pm Sunday matinees. Ticket prices are $20.00 for Friday and Saturday performances, $15 for Sunday shows, and Monday nights are HALF OFF the original ticket price at only $10 a ticket. Tickets can be purchased at www.WhoWantsCakeTheatre.com or at the theatre box office. The Ringwald box office opens 45 minutes before performances and tickets can be purchased with cash or Visa/Mastercard.

Who Wants Cake? opened the doors to their resident home, The Ringwald, in May of 2007 with Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. Quickly, The Ringwald became a mainstay of Detroit's theatre community. Since opening their doors, Who Wants Cake? has been offering up slice after slice of successful shows including Jeffrey, Some Men, The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, The Bad Seed, The Book of Liz, Rent, Sordid Lives: It's a Drag! and Thank You for Being a Friend. 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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