Motherhood: The Musical

As co-hosts of WLAC's weekly radio show Mommy Time, Nashville songwriter Sue Fabisch and sidekick Karla Lawson talk about (surprise!) motherhood--the good, the bad, the laundry. So for Fabisch it was only a hop, a skip and a jump to penning this 90-minute musical about a mother-to-be whose friends throw her a baby shower—and who then proceed to bare their souls about the trials of having children and juggling work and family. The 18 songs are a pastiche of styles--calypso, '50s, gospel, blues, ballad, honky-tonk--and four of them are outright parodies ("Oops, I'm Pregnant Again" for example). Indeed, the titles say it all: "Soccer Mom," "Costco Queen," "The Vasectomy Song" and (my personal favorite) "I Leak." Fabisch's songs are well-crafted, and her musical was enthusiastically received during its initial staged reading earlier this year at Tennessee Women's Theater Project's Women's Work festival. Talk about a fertile talent.
Wednesdays-Saturdays. Starts: Nov. 12. Continues through Nov. 15, 2008