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RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) – Carol Piersol in partnership with Virginia Repertory Theatre brings ‘Breast in Show’ to Richmond. This musical explores the roller coaster of emotions that come with a diagnosis of breast cancer.  The cast shares a song and we talked with Producer Carol Piersol and Director Billy Christopher Maupin. You have two chances left to see the show on Monday, March 18 and Tuesday, March 19 at Virginia Repertory Theatre’s Willow Lawn location, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive. View videos and read article online.

Theater review: ‘Breast in Show’ You might not expect to meet comedy in a chemotherapy ward. But irreverent humor bubbles up often in “Breast in Show,” a breast cancer-themed musical whose characters spend a good deal of time in a hospital’s chemo treatment zone. For instance, at one point in director Billy Christopher Maupin’s lively production of the musical — at Virginia Repertory Theatre’s Willow Lawn Stage — a group of gutsy cancer-patient characters interacts with a zany wig vendor, played by Andrew Hamm. Submitting stoically to their IV drips, the patients — who have lost their hair during treatment — look on bemusedly as the exuberant vendor pulls headdresses out of a pink trunk: red, curly locks worthy of a femme fatale; a clutch of ebullient dreadlocks;...

Breast in Show: High-Energy Musical Offers Laughter and Tears The humor of breast cancer sounds like the ultimate oxymoron, but the musical Breast in Show masterfully blends comedy with tragedy as it examines six very different people’s struggles with the way-too-prevalent disease. Playing to a nearly full house at Willow Lawn, talented actors donned multiple roles as they guided the audience through the harrowing, yet sometimes humorous journey of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and life (or not) thereafter. Its high-energy musical numbers sometimes garnered laughter, other times silence, and a few time times tears. In between, skilled one-liners zinged the patrons in unexpected ways: “Time, all I need is time” … “My oncologist is the man I adore!” … “How I...

Breast in Show executive producer, Eileen Mitchard, is interviewed on WUSA9 and talks about the premier of Breast In Show. Click on the play button below to watch the...

“Breast in Show” Musical to Highlight Experience of Cancer “Breast cancer has always been my cause. I think it’s one of the worst things that can happen to a woman … from possibly losing a body part to beauty and self esteem issues,” Mitchard said, adding that she has known many who have both survived and lost their battles with breast cancer. “I wanted to work toward creating awareness through a grassroots movement, so that we’re not satisfied with accepting this disease as something we have to endure.” READ...