In the annals of eccentric celebrities, Florence Foster Jenkins Meryl Streep stands apart. A wealthy socialite, she gained renown as a spectacularly jarring singer. Audiences in war-time Manhattan were thrilled to hear her excruciatingly off-the-mark yet entertaining warblings. She was so enthusiastically bad for a long time it seemed no one was willing to deny the strange joy of her performances.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PM on August 9, 2016