Kokandy Productions

Next Monday! 📚🎶 Meet our Book Club members for this sultry, steamy edition:

Alanna Chavez
Elliot Esquivel
David Gordon-Johnson
Emily Holland
Catherine Rodriguez O’Connor

🎹 Nick Sula
📖 Derek Van Barham

Summer is here—the air thick with music, perfume and sweltering heat. It’s Tennessee Williams weather! Book Club is back, storming into town like a long lost sister you thought you’d never see. We’re tickled to tackle A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Williams’ masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of Blanche, Stella, Stanley and all their New Orleans friends. Inspired by what is widely considered to be one of the best plays of the 20th century, we’ll use music celebrate sisterhood, southern hospitality and standing in the middle of the street to scream your lover’s name. It’ll have you hollering “Book Club! Boooook Club!!!”

Kokandy Book Club is an intimate salon series celebrating theatre, music and community. Each meeting will focus on a well known play—investigating the plot, themes and relevant tangents through a mix of musical theatre and pop/rock performance. Have a sit, have a sip and let’s have a good ole fashion jam session.

🎭 Doors open at 7 PM for a 7:30 PM performance.
☕️ The Understudy Cafe will be open for refreshments.
🎟️ Space is limited, and this event usually sells out! Get your tickets now to reserve your spot. Tickets available on Eventbrite and the Understudy website. They’re $18.50 or PWYC🎟️

📚 PS… Book Club is NOT a reading of the book or play. It is a cabaret-style set list of songs inspired by the original text, interspersed with commentary, fun facts, excerpts from the script and other thematically-relevant material. The runtime is usually 75-90 minutes. It’s fun. Trust. 😘

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