Diva on diva comedy at 1st Stage

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If farces deal in improbabilities, their characters encountering one another as they enter and exit innumerable doors, their language spinning at fever pitch, then Michael McKeever’s “Suite Surrender” at 1st Stage qualifies as a farce: five doors allow for plenty of comings and goings as McKeever relates a fast-paced diva versus diva comedy.

It’s 1942 and the suite is reserved for Claudia McFadden (Farrell Parker), a famous American singer. She’s in town to give a USO benefit show organized by Palm Beach society ladies, chief among them Mrs. Everett P. Osgood (Lisa Hodsoll).

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