Get ready to buzz with excitement at CICADA! One blistering summer. One unforgettable comedy. Get your tickets now!
What's it all about?
When the matriarch of a wealthy family dies, her three adult children have no clue that she’s tasked a down-on-her-luck woman, Leigh, to matchmake them. Over the course of one blistering summer, an unforgettable cast of characters collide in a struggle for money, love, and liberation.
Who wrote it?
Adam LaPorte is a composer, playwright, and librettist from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He wrote his first musical at age 17 for his high school senior thesis project. Other writing credits include: The Baseball Play (Oklahoma Contemporary), June by the Sea (OCU Stripped), Courtship (The Tank), and The Train Stoppers (co-written with Amanda Freedman, DTUAF Winner Best Short). He is a graduate of Oklahoma City University (BM) and NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (MFA). What he doesn’t know about bugs, he makes up for in heart.
The show is two and a half hours with one 10-minute intermission. Doors open at 6:30 pm.