Armistead Maupin’s beloved Tales Of The City started out as a newspaper column over 40 years ago. They morphed into 9 novels, two television mini-series, and then in 2011 into a musical.
With a score by Jake Shears (the lead singer of Scissor Sisters, and John “JJ” Garden, and book by Tony Award winner Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), the musical ran for two months at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco
The cast featured Judy Kaye as Anna Madrigal, Betsy Wolfe as Mary Ann Singleton, Mary Birdsong as Mona Ramsey, and Wesley Taylor as Michael “Mouse” Tolliver. The show opened in June 2011 to critical and audience acclaim and became the highest-grossing musical production in A.C.T.’s history.
Now the fully-staged production, Tales of the City, which was filmed during its original 2011 run, can be seen for the first time in its entirety. Plus In addition to the online screening, A.C.T. is filming a special conversation with Pam MacKinnon and Tony Award nominee Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, who made history as the first actor who identifies as transgender to play a trans character on Broadway during the one-night-only 2017 benefit concert of Armistead Maupin‘s Tales of the City, The Musical in the role of Mrs. Madrigal. The discussion will be free and available to ticket holders. The conversation will discuss the changes in casting over the past 10 years and highlight the importance of representation and diversity in theater.
Available online June 21st - 27th https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/20202122-season/tales-of-the-city/
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