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
