NEWS RELEASE
ORILLIA OPERA HOUSE
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On Thursday, Oct. 24, stage veteran, star of Suddenly Mommy and Comedy Now! (The Comedy Network) and Canadian Comedy Award nominee Anne Marie Scheffler returns to the iconic Orillia Opera House but this time, with her acclaimed solo production MILF Life Crisis.
A courageous writer and truth teller, Scheffler’s take on splitting up and “dating again” is loving, honest, funny, sexy, and completely transforming, whether you’re a divorced woman, a single man, or anyone in between.
Suddenly Mommy played Orillia in 2014
“In early fall of 2014, I played the Orillia Opera House for four weeks with Suddenly Mommy. That was my first show out of my marriage,” Scheffler explains. “Little did Orillia audiences know, 'Dale', the husband in Suddenly Mommy, and I were officially over. We just signed the papers, sold the marriage home and moved out into our own separate places.
"That Orillia Suddenly Mommy run was my best way to land on my feet. I got to make laughter on stage for four weeks! Thank you Orillia Opera House! You have no idea how much I love Orillia.”
Then Scheffler’s L.A. manager called, requesting “the divorce show.”
“I knew it was going to be called MILF Life Crisis because that name came to me like a bolt of lighting. I was in the kitchen as a newly single mom, just making sandwiches or something, thinking about my next comedy. And boom: like Noah must have felt with the ark: MILF Life Crisis just came to me. So clear. And it made me laugh my butt off.
"Then I had a show to write. I knew it couldn’t be sad or angry- it had to be very funny, empowering, and really full of love and hope.”
So in early fall 2015, Scheffler debuted MILF Life Crisis in Toronto, and she has been touring the show to huge crowds and standing ovations ever since.
A fun and sexy follow up to Suddenly Mommy: it’s like a celebration of a woman set free: catapulted out into the big wide world, with nothing but her leopard print and wine-drinking friends. And if you liked no-nonsense lesbian mom Terry from Suddenly Mommy, good news: Terry’s back in MILF Life Crisis.
The Oct. 24 date in Orillia is part of a bigger tour. The October 2019 MILF Life Crisis tour is being staged at large venues across the country in places like Pictou, Saint John, North Bay, Cobalt and Oshawa.
Fun fact: Scheffler is opening the tour in Pictou, NS. Which led to a fascinating realization: 15 years ago, Scheffler and “Dale” honeymooned on the east coast: including Pictou.
Although MILF Life Crisis is geared at the relationship challenged, it’s a loud, raucous MILFs (and DILFs) night out for everyone.
A little like a comedy rock concert where tribes of women have an excuse to put on their leopard print, and drink wine, and cheer along with Anne Marie’s post- marriage antics. And men come out in droves, too, to see what all the MILFy fuss is about. Spoiler alert: there’s a hilarious improvised audience participation scene. Also known as The Plumber Scene. Anne Marie is Second City alumna, after all.
Scheffler is super happy to be returning to Orillia, with her “dating again” show.
“I don’t like to call it a divorce show. It’s a starting again, partying again show. Life happens. And things end. But there is always a new beginning. You just have to believe in yourself.”
Scheffler’s leading-edge work has always bravely spoken our society‘s current truth. Many of us are waking up at almost 50 (or over 50) and finding that our world has exploded.
MILF Life Crisis is an intimate display of what a woman goes through: letting go of a marriage, finding her sexy again, loving her children, her girlfriends, maybe another man again, but most importantly, herself.
What if this setback is really a set-up for our highest good? What if this ending is really a beginning? What if we’ve just been handed the highest potential of ourselves? Because Scheffler says on stage and in real life, “the best is yet to come.”
Tickets are $35 (Groups of 10+ contact the Box Office for special rate of $30 per person )
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