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Tumor of humor Musical about breast cancer hopes to inspire through laughter Following the lives of four different people diagnosed with breast cancer, the musical strikes a balance between the serious and the hilarious, all in the name of a good cause. READ ARTICLE...

Breast In Show is not a depressing, cynical musical about breast cancer. Kathryn Bryer and Joan Cushing accentuate the informative, funny and serious aspects with equal vigor, bringing to the stage an emotional and multi-dimensional production. The audience laughed, cheered, whooped it up, while wiping away tears. READ ARTICLE...

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Thanks for the mammaries. Breast wishes. Tits a Wonderful Life. You can cry over breast cancer—or you can laugh. Composer, lyricist and playwright Joan Cushing does both—as well as pens some new tunes—in the first original musical about saving the ta-tas, Breast In Show. READ ARTICLE...

Musical ‘Breast in Show’ was an opportunity to do something important. With humor, musical conveys real truths about the cancer experience.   You cannot accuse Eileen Mitchard of thinking small. She wants “Breast in Show,” the comedy-infused musical she conceived and nurtured, to entertain audiences — but she also wants it to mobilize the entire nation behind the eradication of breast cancer. “We have the ability to accomplish this goal, for our daughters and our granddaughters and our sisters and our mothers,” says Mitchard, who collaborated on the musical with playwright Lisa Hayes and composer-lyricist Joan Cushing. “I hope this show will really get people believing that we can — and we must, and we will!” Her goal might move a little closer to...