CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Joins Edinburgh Fringe in August; Urie, Wendt Star

The New York Times is reporting that CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, which plays Monday nights at the Triad in New York has joined the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which runs from August 5- August 30.  In addition, the show will venture to both Pittsburgh and and New Orleans this summer. The show will star Michael Urie and George Wendt.  Additional casting is to be announced.

Producers are hoping that the Edinburgh installment, which will mark the first international production will preceed a London show.

Lee Meriwether and Anthony Rapp will star in the Pittsburgh production, which runs June 3-12.  Ryan Reynolds, who appeared in CELEBIRTY AUTOBIOGRAPHY in this winter in New York City is organizing the New Orleans installment on July 11 and will additionally feature John Goodman and Anthony Mackie.

CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, which originated in Los Angeles to great acclaim and was later adapted for a Bravo-TV special, features actors reading selections from the autobiographies of the famous and infamous. The production won a 2009 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.

IAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, AUTOBIOGRAPHY will hold a special Gay Pride edition in New York on June 26 featuring Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong.

Eugene Pack, who created the series, says, "I would listen to a lot of books-on-tape, particularly autobiographies, and was astounded at what people would write about. When I would get a hold of one of these books and read it out loud to friends, they'd insist I was making it up. But people actually wrote these words! So I decided to put the material up in front of an audience, knowing that it would be extremely entertaining."

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY "big-yuks entertainment" and a "merry compendium of the witlessness and wisdom of the rich and famous." Joe Dziemianowicz of the Daily News called it a "potent comic cocktail...you weep with laughter." The New Yorker called it "inspired." And Sam Thielman of Variety wrote, "Audience members hyperventilate. It should lead a long and happy life." The show has been featured by numerous media outlets, including ABC's "The View" and "Nightline," NPR's "Morning Edition," CNN'S "American Morning," New York 1, WNBC'S "News for New York", CBS Sunday Morning News and Bravo's "A-List Awards." It has been running for nearly three years in New York as well as sold out engagements in San Francisco and Chicago.

For more information visit www.celebrityautobiography.com.

 

 

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi

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