There Will Be Cake!

The WFCPC is excited to support Opera Praktikos on their musical drama There Will Be Cake! this December.

Founded by Greg Moomjy, a founding member of the WFCPC's Patient Family Advisory Council (PFAC), Opera Praktikos is New York City's first disability-affirmative opera company, with a mission to make opera an inclusive and accessible art form for audiences and artists alike.

There Will Be Cake! is a sweet, site-specific musical drama pairing two mono-operas about memory and food, featuring words of wisdom from Julia Child herself! One short opera bakes us a chocolate cake, the other spreads joy! Mixed together, these mono-operas make for one hour of a delicious and joy-filled community event…and yes, there WILL be cake!

The performances will be held at Asylum NYC, an accessible venue in Manhattan. There will be three performances at 1:30pm on December 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2024.

General Admission is $35. OPrak's misison is to make opera accessible and will offer a Pay What You Can (PWYC) option of $17 or $10. Seating is flexible and every ticket gives equal access to the performance, regardless of how much you choose to pay.

Saturday December 14th will include a Livestream Broadcast option. This is ephemeral, live-viewing-one-time-only. You are there with the rest of the audience, and you are home. The show broadcasts at 1:30pm EST. It will be taken off line after the show and not available for later viewing. TIcket structure is the same as above; Livestream Broadcast $35 with a PWYC option of $17 or $10. 

There Will Be Cake! pairs Bon Appetit! by Lee Hoiby, Julia Child & Mark Shulgasser, featuring Mezzo-Soprano Hailey McAvoy as Julia Child, and OPrak’s first commissioned work, Fluffernutter by Spicer Carr & Marianna Mott Newirth, featuring Zwisenfach Shanley Horvitz as Sarah Karmichael.

Stage direction by Gwynn MacDonald

Music direction by Calvin Hitchcock

Produced by Opera Praktikos