Carrie Fisher on her Tony Snub

Carrie Fisher, who recently appeared on Broaway in Wishful Drinking, shared her thoughts yesterday via her blog about being left of the 2010 Tony nominee list.  Not without a sense of humor, Fiisher expresses "surprise" over the snub, repeatedly poking fun at the "stretch" involved in portraying herself in the show.

Fisher laments, "Even though my performance--my incredibly layered performance---of "Carrie Fisher" in the show, "Wishful Drinking" was overlooked by the Tony Commission of the United States of Live Action Theater in Manhattan........I find myself almost effortlessly able to maintain a brave front (on top of my redonkulously large 34 LL boozum)"

"Couldn't they see what a stretch it was for me to play, "Carrie Fisher"? Every nite and two times on Wednesday and Saturday,  I had to get out of my way---all the way out and then slowly, slowly, cell by cell by syringe by syllable.......ever so surreptitiously and unsympathetically into.......whatever that was......... character?"

Fisher, however was not the only performer who many were surprised to see left off of the Tony list. As reported yesterday from Gold Derby's "Not Nominated" list in the LA Times, included in a list of "shocking upsets" to many include Enron's snub for Best Play after being christened the U.K.'s darling, Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig's slight from the Best Actor category for their performances in the commercially and critically successful A Steady Rain, the shockingly few nominations for the wildly hyped American Idiot (believed by many to be a strong contender in this year's Tony's race for Best Musical), and the nomination of short-lived Ragtime over Promises, Promises for Best Revival.

Wishful Drinking  played 15 preview performances and 133 regular performances at Studio 54. In the show, Fisher recounted the true and intoxicating tale of her life as a Hollywood legend, told with the same wry wit she poured into bestsellers like Postcards from The Edge. The daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher became a cultural icon when she starred as "Princess Leia" in the first Star Wars trilogy at 19 years old. Forever changed, Carrie's life did not stay picture perfect. Fisher is the life of the party in this uproarious and sobering look at her Hollywood hangover.

To read Carrie's full blog, visit: http://carriefisher.com

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