FLASH FORCE! Middle-Aged Women Superheroes Save Democracy

FLASH FORCE! Middle-Aged Women Superheroes Save Democracy

Five Broadway women in a Helplessness Therapy group are suddenly transformed into Superheroes by a mysterious accident in the Columbia University physics lab next door. Led by their octogenarian therapist, Frieda, they learn to use their new superpowers to battle the evil organization, ORWELL, bent on destroying Democracy worldwide. All while pursuing personal growth. With the All-Star Broadway Repertory Company, featuring: Lucie Arnaz, Judy Blazer, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jason Graae, Kevin Isola, Kecia Lewis, Nancy Opel, Linda Purl, Emily Skinner, Karen Ziemba. Written and created by Deborah Grace Winer. Directed by Mark Waldrop. Music composed and sound design by Nathan Scalzone. Editor and sound design by April Tucker.

Episodes

September 25, 2024 33 mins

We last left Elizabeth and Celia fighting for their lives in the wine cellar between the barrel of a gun and the monstrous supernatural yellow-eyed dog waiting to tear them to pieces.  In the season's hair-raising conclusion, will our superheroes stop the billion dollar money transfer to the evil organization, ORWELL and get off that cliff alive?

With the Broadway All-Star Repertory Company, featuring: Lucie Arnaz, Judy Blazer, Don...

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Our heroes, posing as entertainers for evil villain Natasha's birthday party, must stop the billion dollar transfer to the world-destroying organization, ORWELL, which will use the money to spread disinformation that the American Revolution was a hoax, and the US really belongs to Russia.  Will they get past the monstrous yellow-eyed dog guarding the computer servers?   While simultaneously preparing an all-Andrew Lloyd Webber conc...

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September 11, 2024 20 mins

In the middle of the New Mexico desert, next to Area 51, in a top secret ranch commandeered for high level training...in between bookings as an AirB&B...these five women from the theatre, formerly part of a helplessness therapy group, plus a French-speaking flying cat with boundaries issues, have been instructed in the deadly use of their new superpowers.  Their dangerous mission to save the world lies just ahead of them, in a ...

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September 4, 2024 21 mins

Careening through the Southwestern desert, our five newly-minted superheroes--and an accidentally transformed French-speaking cat-- head to their top secret training site, slightly to the left of Area 51, to prepare for their first mission.  Saving the world, by destroying the organization bent on global chaos, ORWELL.  But unspeakable danger lurks in the desert, and they are not alone.  Will they make it to their destination alive...

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August 24, 2024 22 mins

Our five women in helplessness therapy, having been caught in a mysterious explosion from the Columbia University physics lab next door, and being forced at gunpoint to leave behind the corpse of their beloved therapist, Frieda (and also an emotional support cat with expensive dental surgery) are being whisked away by nameless men in black to a secret undisclosed location.  And find they have been somehow...changed...in ways they c...

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August 19, 2024 17 mins

On New York's Upper West Side, five Broadway women in their 12th year of group therapy, and their octogenarian therapist, are suddenly transformed into superheroes by a mysterious accident in the Columbia University physics lab next door.  With the Broadway All-Star Repertory Company, featuring: Lucie Arnaz, Judy Blazer, Donna Lynne Champlin, Jason Graae, Kevin Isola, Kecia Lewis, Nancy Opel, Linda Purl, Emily Skinner, Karen Ziemba...

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