What if you asked your mother the question you always wanted to ask?

Would she answer honestly?

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“SICAL” (So It’s Come At Last…) is a generous performance by Carol “Carl” Imrie Mui and Lim Mui, featuring live musical accompaniment. Through soliloquies, celebration, Bye Bye Birdie, nerve and glamour, “SICAL” examines the intimacy of a relationship all too close for ease, parent and offspring, or mother and “daughter.” It is a ritual of love, laughter, and healing that transcends bloodlines, bleeds into audience, and hopes to leave us with a touch more bravery and self-trust. It is a southwestern Grey Gardens but with a tad more self awareness, and a whole lot of heart; it is reality in performance with a dash of fiction.

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What if for our deathbed we dreamt up something fabulous?

Side note: 50 years or so ago, Carol portrayed Mrs. Peterson in her high school production of Bye Bye Birdie, and since then has performed the monologue to loved ones, and strangers, throughout her life. This is her long awaited theatrical debut since high school, and yes, she will be performing her infamous monologue (“So it’s come at last…) you will not want to miss this one…