Daisy Eagan, Emily Dorsch Lead LOVE LOSS At Scottsdale Center 1/3-8

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the Arizona premiere of the international hit play Love, Loss, and What I Wore on Jan. 3–8, 2012. The show will feature Emily Dorsch (Law & Order, Gossip Girl); Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan (The Secret Garden); Emmy Award winners Sonia Manzano (Maria on Sesame Street) and Loretta Swit ('Hot Lips' on M*A*S*H); and Myra Lucretia Taylor (Wicked, Nine).

Tickets are available for $39 or $49 online at www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or through the Patron Services Box Office at (480) 499-TKTS (8587). A special group discount is available when purchasing 10 or more tickets.

Written by sisters Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, Love, Loss, and What I Wore is an intimate collection of stories based on the best-seller by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons' friends. Like the popular book, Love, Loss, and What I Wore uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tell funny and often poignant stories to which all women can relate. The show opened in New York City in 2009 at The Westside Theatre, where it has broken that theater's box-office records, and was honored with a 2010 Drama Desk Award. Love, Loss, and What I Wore has been produced in more than eight countries and began its U.S. tour in Chicago in September 2011.

Produced by Daryl Roth and directed by Karen Carpenter, Love, Loss, and What I Wore is performed by an all-star cast of five actresses. Members of the New York cast have included Samantha Bee, Alexis Bledel, Kristin Chenoweth, Tyne Daly, Fran Drescher, Janeane Garofalo, Melissa Joan Hart, Carol Kane, Stacy London, Jane Lynch, Natasha Lyonne, Rosie O'Donnell, Rhea Perlman, Caroline Rhea, Doris Roberts, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sherri Shepherd, Brooke Shields, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Cobie Smulders, Loretta Swit and Rita Wilson, among others.

Emily Dorsch has performed on Broadway in A Man for All Seasons and In the Next Room and on television in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gossip Girl and New Amsterdam. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University and an M.F.A. in acting from the Yale School of Drama.

Daisy Eagan is the youngest actress to receive the Tony Award, which she earned for her performance as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. Her other Broadway credits include Les Misérables and James Joyce's The Dead. Eagon has appeared in television and film in Numbers, Ghost Whisperer, The Unit, Without a Trace, Ripe and Losing Isaiah.

Sonia Manzano has been playing Maria on Sesame Street since the early 1970s and has earned 15 Emmy Awards as a writer for the program. Her stage work includes the original production of Godspell, The Vagina Monologues and The Exonerated. Manzano has published two children's books, No Dogs Allowed! and A Box Full of Kittens with Simon and Schuster, and Scholastic will publish her first novel in fall 2012.

Loretta Swit became an American icon starring as Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan in M*A*S*H, one of television's most honored series. She has earned two Emmy Awards and 10 Emmy nominations as well as the People's Choice Award, Genie Award, Silver Satellite Award and eight Golden Globe nominations. In addition to acting in more than 30 films for television, Swit has performed on Broadway and with The Vagina Monologues in New York, London and Chicago.

Myra Lucretia Taylor has performed in numerous Broadway productions, including Nine (Tony Award, "Best Revival," 2003) and the national tour of Wicked as Madame Morrible. On television, she has acted in all three Law & Order shows and The Big C. Her film credits include Silver Tongues, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Changing Lanes.

Nora Ephron is a journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director whose credits include Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail and Imaginary Friends. She is the author of I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections and numerous other books. Her most recent film, Julie & Julia, stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

Delia Ephron is an author, playwright and screenwriter. Her new novel, The Lion Is In, will be published in May 2012 by Penguin. She has written fiction, non-fiction and humor for adults, teens and children, including the novels Hanging Up and Big City Eyes. Her bestselling book How to Eat Like a Child was adapted as a musical for television and subsequently became a theatrical musical for children. Her screenwriting credits include The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You've Got Mail, Michael, This Is My Life and Hanging Up.

Ilene Beckerman, the author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, was nearly 60 when she began her writing career. 

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
January 3–8, 2012
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 5, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 6, 2012, 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 7, 2012, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 8, 2012, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

LOCATION AND PARKING
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is located at 7380 E. Second St. in downtown Scottsdale, four blocks south of Indian School Road and three blocks east of Scottsdale Road. Free parking is available in the public parking garage located to the west of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Wells Fargo Avenue. Additional free parking is available at the Old Town Parking Corral at East Second Street and Brown Avenue and at the Civic Center Library parking garage located on Drinkwater Boulevard at East Second Street.

ACCESSIBILITY
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers performance accommodations to enhance audience members' experience, including: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation or live audio description with two weeks advance notice. Assistive-listening devices and wheelchair seating are always available. Visit www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or contact the Patron Services Box Office at (480) 499-TKTS (8587) [TDD: (480) 874-4694] for further details. Please inquire about services when ordering tickets.