


Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I want a Pound Puppy, a Speak + Spell, and a nuclear radiation detector.
A young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults—underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus. Cold War Choir Practice was a New York Times Critic’s Pick during its 2025 run at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks, with Laura Collins-Hughes saying the play is “...infused with choral music and spiked with espionage.”
February 21st, 2026
March 19th, 2026
By: Ro Reddick
Director: Knud Adams
Producer: MCC Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Page 73
Cast list: Alana Raquel Bowers (as Meek), Will Cobbs (as Smooch), Crystal Finn (as Virgie), Andy Lucien (as Clay), Lizan Mitchell (as Puddin), Ellen Winter (as the Choir Leader), Suzzy Roche and Nina Ross (as members of the Choir)
Sets: Afsoon Pajoufar
Costumes: Brenda Abbandandolo
Lighting: Masha Tsimring
Sound: Kathy Ruvuna
Other info: Music direction by Ellen Winter, movement direction by Baye & Asa
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