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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Dan DeMello, 917-981-0344 - dan@dandemello.com
Ronnie Larsen's New Play Fall Well
Enters Final Two Weeks of its Acclaimed Run at The Foundry
Mae West in Sunset Boulevard
Extends Performances Through July 24
(Wilton Manors, FL) – Amidst enthusiastic audience response and critical acclaim, playwright and producer Ronnie Larsen’s two productions currently running at The Foundry (2306 N. Dixie Highway) continue on this summer, as the irreverent new comedy Fall Well continues its acclaimed engagement, and Mae West in Sunset Boulevard has extended performances through Friday, July 24.
Fall Well is Larsen's unapologetically outrageous new comedy inspired by the real-life Liberty University scandal involving Jerry Falwell Jr., his wife Becki, and former pool attendant Giancarlo Granda. The comedy gleefully skewers public morality, private desire, and religious hypocrisy through Larsen's trademark brand of provocative satire. The production stars Carbonell Award winner Seth Trucks as Jerry Falwell Jr., alongside Sara Grant as Becki Falwell and Juan Toro as Giancarlo Granda. Tickets are available here.
In Mae West in Sunset Boulevard, starring Jennifer McClain and Seth Trucks, Larsen turns his attention to one of Hollywood's greatest "what if" moments. In 1949, legendary filmmaker Billy Wilder offered the starring role in Sunset Boulevard to iconic screen legend Mae West. She famously declined, and the film went on to become one of cinema's most celebrated classics. This stylish and haunting world premiere imagines the fascinating collision between the uncompromising Mae West at the twilight of her reign and a Hollywood determined to reinvent itself without her, revealing the glamour, ambition, humor and heartbreak behind one of the industry's most legendary missed opportunities. Tickets are available here.
Critics have embraced both productions, turning the pairing into one of South Florida's most talked-about theatrical events of the summer. Reviewing Fall Well for Florida Theater On Stage, Jan Sjostrom wrote "the laughs come readily" as the production exposes “the gulf between their professed Christian beliefs and their morality-busting behavior," adding that its "comic queries about the characters' sexual preferences and boasts about their prowess add to the show's frisson of naughtiness." Mindy Leaf of Around Town says "audiences can expect to be both startled and entertained, when not shocked into gut-wrenching laughter!"
In her review of Mae West in Sunset Boulevard, Brittan Haller of Florida Theater On Stage praised the production as "funny and tender," while celebrating Jennifer McClain's performance and noting her status as a beloved cabaret performer and gay icon.
Back: Juan Toro as Giancarlo Granda; Front: Seth Trucks as Jerry Falwell and Sara Grant as Becki Falwell. Photo by: Jimmy Cunningham
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