~Opening Soon~

Velina

will be appearing in
The San Francisco Playhouse Production of:

 
 
What do you do when you’ve got three girlfriends, all your friends are married, and it’s your birthday? Find out in Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical comedy. It’s today in Manhattan, and Robert is unable to make a commitment of his own as he makes the circuit of his married friends, alternately observing and participating in the ups and downs of their relationships.

Company features a brilliantly brisk and energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim's best- known songs. The study of relationships, love and company is put under a microscope during Robert’s 35th birthday party. Robert has to consider whether it’s best to be single, married or even divorced but living together as his crazy, wedded friends play out every possible example of cohabitation. 

 ~Also with~

Keith Pinto, Teresa Attridge,  Morgan Dayley, Michelle Drexler, Ryan Drummond, Richard Frederick, John Paul Gonzalez, Monique Hafen, Stephanie Prentice, Chris Reber, Abby Sammons, Nicole Weber and Michael Scott Wells. 
 
 
 
 
 
~Meanwhile~

Michael

will be appearing
in:
 
 
 
A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16's, America's bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their deadly gunsights on... an old black man watching TV on his couch?

This isn't Baghdad or Kandahar - it's home, and for ex-Black Panther Malcolm Haywood it's just another wrong door police raid in the War on Drugs. So of course Malcolm is horrified when the grandson he's tried to protect, Nathaniel, returns from serving in Afghanistan only to find another war zone at home - and one where young Black men like Nathaniel are in the crosshairs! Meanwhile the Mayor and the Police Chief - one desperate for votes, the other desperate to fund his militarized police force - ramp up the fear (and their shiny new tank) to fight the newest, drug threat to America... worse than weed, meth, coke, crack, or crank, it's... SNORF!! And, of course, the SNORF trade is centered in the... darkest... part of town...

Are the police out of control? What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? Is Malcolm's neighbor Lluis (an undocumented immigrant,) actually a SNORF-lord? And can Malcolm convince his grandson that it is safer to re-up and fight overseas than to try to survive here at home, in Freedomland? 
 
Bay Area opening
July 3rd Dolores Park, San Francisco!


Written by Michael Gene Sullivan
  Music & lyrics by Ira Marlowe
Directed by Andrea Snow

Featuring
 Hugo E. CarbajalLisa Hori-GarciaMichael Gene Sullivan, and George P. Scott.

And the SFMT Band:
 Ray FernandezAaron Kierbel and Daniel Savio

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