Who Wants Cake? Closes Season With Love! Valour! Compassion!, Opens 5/13

Who Wants Cake? invites you to spend a weekend in the country with Terrence McNally's hilarious and touching dramedy Love! Valour! Compassion!. Opening Friday, May 13th, the Tony and Drama Desk award-winning play about eight gay friends will have an exclusive 4 week run at Ferndale's feisty Ringwald Theatre ending on Monday, June 6th.

Please Note: Love! Valour! Compassion! contains nudity and adult situations.

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, this generous comedy is simple at first glance: At a beautiful Dutchess County farmhouse, two hours north of New York City, eight gay friends hash out their passions, resentments and fears over the course of three summer weekends. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, and skinny-dipping mix with monumental questions about life and death. According to the Village Voice, "Love! Valour! Compassion! is one of [McNally's] very best. Unshowy and quiet, it rings louder with authenticity than his satiric farces do with laughter."

Terrence McNally is the author of the 2008 Ringwald hit, Some Men. Some of his other plays include Master Class, The Ritz, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, and Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune. His musical triumphs have included The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime and The Full Monty and the libretto for the contemporary opera Dead Man Walking.

Who Wants Cake? opened the doors to their resident home, The Ringwald, in May of 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, Jeffrey, Some Men, The Bad Seed, The Book of Liz, Rent, and Sordid Lives: It's a Drag!. Who Wants Cake? was named 2009 Best Theatrical Troupe by Real Detroit.

Love! Valour! Compassion! opens Friday, May 13th and plays through June 6th at 8pm on Friday, Saturday and Monday nights with 3pm Sunday matinees. Ticket prices are $20.00 for Friday and Saturday performances, Sunday performances are $15, and Monday nights are HALF OFF normal ticket price at only $10 a ticket. Please note that the first Sunday performance at 3pm on May 15th is PAY WHAT YOU CAN! Reservations may be made by phone at 248-545-5545 or online at www.WhoWantsCakeTheatre.com. The box office opens 45 minutes before performances and tickets can be purchased at the door with cash or Visa/Mastercard.

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