Upcoming Performance to Benefit Smilow Cancer Center

SPINNING: The Musical

Friday, Sep 8 and Saturday, Sep 9 7pm

55 Audubon Street, New Haven

$35 suggested donation

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Spinning is an extraordinarily intimate 80-minute encounter with Dr. Mary Ann Frank, a highly respected clinical psychologist and accomplished singer, actress, and story teller...
On February 1st, 2016, Mary Ann lost her beloved husband of 28 years, internationally recognized Yale neuroscientist Dr. Ralph Hoffman, after a grueling 14-month battle with glioblastoma.

Spinning refers, of course, to the early, vertiginous disorientation of grief, but also to Mary Ann’s capacity to spin - through story and song - a tale of a spirited marriage cut heartbreakingly short just as it was poised to renew itself. Buoying herself and Ralph by singing and performing throughout his illness and continuing to do so after his death, she also maintained her clinical practice, renewed her own psychotherapy and, at 60, transformed herself into a long-distance cyclist, a canyoneer and, more and more, a powerful spinner of deep and deeply hilarious tales of family love, incomprehensible loss, and the power of music to open a path toward resilience, healing and hope.

The performance, which captures those archetype human emotions that transcends any personal story, incorporates a combination of a memoir oriented narrative with a variety of pop songs from 1930’s through early 2000’s.The goal is to bring a creative empathetic experience to the audience while simultaneously raising awareness in brain cancer research.

*suggested donations start at $35 per person with the opportunity to donate additional amounts. For large donations, please email SpinningTheMusical@gmail.com with details. Donations may be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Thank you for supporting the Smilow Cancer Center* with this breathtaking new piece of theater, Spinning.* net proceeds to benefit the Smilow Cancer Center

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