Photo Flash: Who Wants Cake? Presents SantaLand Diaries & Season’s Greetings

A young man (Joe Plambeck) arrives in New York with dreams of being a writer for One Life to Live and instead lands a part-time job as a Macy's Christmas elf named Crumpet. From humiliating interview to elf indoctrination to scrapes with miscast Santas and obnoxious customers, the author's real-life experiences, detailed in The SantaLand Diaries, are merrily subversive and fall-on-your-knees funny!

In Season's Greetings, a determinedly sunny Mrs. Jocelyn Dunbar (Joe Bailey) takes pen to paper recounting the joys and unexpected surprises of the past year - including the arrival of her husband's illegitimate, gold-digging, Vietnamese daughter on the doorstep. Twisted, tragic and hilarious in its lurid revelations, Season's Greetings is an antidote to the chipper holiday newsletter of yore.

David Sedaris is the author of the best sellers Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. He taught writing at the Art Institute of Chicago for two years, and his essays appear regularly in The New Yorker and Esquire. Sedaris' original radio pieces can often be heard on public radio's This American Life, distributed nationally by WBEZ in Chicago.

Who Wants Cake? opened the doors to their resident home, The Ringwald, in May 2007 with Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. Quickly, The Ringwald became a mainstay of Detroit's theatre community. Since opening their doors, Who Wants Cake? has been offering up slice after slice of successful shows including Southern Baptist Sissies, Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical, Killer Joe, The Bad Seed, The Book of Liz, Rent, and Evil Dead: The Musical. Who Wants Cake? was named 2009 Best Theatrical Troupe by Real Detroit.

Showtimes for The SantaLand Diaries & Season's Greetings are 8pm on Saturday, December 18th, 7pm on Sunday, December 19th, and 8pm on Tuesday, December 21st and Wednesday, December 22nd. Ticket prices are $20.00 for Saturday and Sunday performances (Sundays performance price includes admission to The Hollie-Mollies, a Who Wants Cake? theatre awards and fundraiser starting at 6pm, doors at 5:30), and tickets are only $10 on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 20th and 21st. Reservations may be made by phone at 248-545-5545 or online at www.WhoWantsCakeTheatre.com. The box office opens 45 minutes before performances.

Please note that The SantaLand Diaries & Season's Greetings will be performing in place of F$$ the Holidays: A Seasonal Retail Story on Saturday, December 18th, at 8pm.

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