Souvenir, a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins at Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum

Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:30PM; Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:00PM; Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 2:00PM.

Play by Stephen Temperley. Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy society eccentric, suffered under the delusion that she was a great coloratura soprano when she was in fact incapable of producing two consecutive notes in tune. Nevertheless, her annual recitals in the ballroom of The Ritz-Carlton hotel (where she resided) brought her extraordinary fame. As news of her terrible singing spread, so did her celebrity. The climax of her career was a single concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944.