YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP Launches National Tour

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up will kick-off its national tour on October 13, 2011 at the Blumenthal Center in North Carolina. Other stops on the "Tomato Tour" include Rochester and Buffalo, NY, Mesa, AZ, Des Moines, IA, and Milwaukee, WI (current schedule below) more dates to be announced.

After thirteen years of marriage, writers-actors-and real-life-married-couple Annabelle Gurwitch ("Dinner and a Movie," Fired!) and Jeff Kahn ("The Ben Stiller Show," Forty Year Old Virgin) have adapted their hilarious, often moving, memoir, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up for the stage. Directed by Darren Katz, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut will star Scott Richard Foster and Antoinette LaVeccia.

In their 75-minute tour de force, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up, take a humorous look at a relationship that seemed doomed by opposing personalities from the start. After trials and tribulations they learn to navigate the conflicts that come with romance, money, and children by embracing each other's differences, taking on parenting as a competitive sport, and dropping out of couple's therapy. Their delightfully crazy lifestyle has managed to keep their relationship intact, up-ending every idea you ever had about living "happily ever after."

This uproariously funny story is sure to strike both laughter and terror into the hearts of any couple (not to mention every single man or woman who is contemplating the connubial state). The book was developed through sold-out performances at The Comedy Central Theatre and at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles and made its New York premiere at The New York Comedy Festival 2009. Recent engagements have included Caroline's on Broadway and Joe's Pub, additional material for the stage show is written by award winning playwright David Koteles.

"Tomato Tour" dates and locations:

North Carolina Blumenthal - Stage Door Theater
130 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
OCTOBER 13 - NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Downstairs Cabaret Theater
20 Windsor Street, Rochester, NY 14605-2935
NOVEMBER 17 - JANUARY 29, 2012

Shea's Performing Arts Center - Smith Theater
658 Main Street • Buffalo, New York 14202
JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 12 2012

Mesa Arts Center - Virginia G. Piper Repertory Theater
One East Main Street, Mesa, Arizona 85201
FEBRUARY 23 - 26, 2012

The Civic Center of Greater Des Moines - Temple Theater
221 Walnut Street, Des Moines, IA 50309
March 7 - 18, 2012

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts - Vogel Hall
929 N. Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53202
April 26 - 29, 2012

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