CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Plays Broad Stage, 10/24

The 2009 Drama Desk Award winner and 2010 Bistro Award winner Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words performs two shows Sunday, October 24 at 7pm and 9pm, at the Broad Stage, 1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, with a cast that includes Tate Donovan, Rachael Harris, Richard Kind, Laraine Newman, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Jay Thomas, and Lesley Ann Warren.
 
Celebrity Autobiography began its national tour this past summer with acclaimed productions in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as an ongoing production at Broad Stage.
 
The show also recently opened at London's Leicester Square Theatre where it received rave reviews and currently plays to sell-out audiences:
 
"Take a stack of well-thumbed memoirs, a cast of comedians and actors, and lashings of deadpan delivery, and you have the makings of a cult hit." - The Independent
 
"An irreverent, ego-debunking hit." - London Evening Standard
 
"This company is blessed not only with intuitive comic delivery but also fascinating material." - The Stage
 
"Celebrity Autobiography, like most of the world's best ideas, is simple yet inspired."-The Arts Desk
 
The comedy sensation Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words features a line-up of rotating performers who interpret the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous, in both solo and ensemble "chamber" pieces.  Some of the "authors" that are featured include Ivana Trump, VAnna White, Mr. T, Star Jones, Kenny Loggins, Tommy Lee, Sylvester Stallone, the Jonas Brothers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Cassidy, Neil Sedaka, Britney Spears, Madonna, Tiger Woods, Carrie Prejean, Sarah Palin, Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson, as well as the infamous memoirs of ElizaBeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds, which are edited together to create a Rashomon-esque playlet in the participants' own words.

  Celebrity Autobiography is playing to sell-out audiences and rave reviews at New York's Triad Theater.  Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the show "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,"  NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly," CBS's "Sunday Morning," NPR's "Morning Edition,"  CNN'S "American Morning," New York 1, WNBC'S "News for New York" at 11pm, and Bravo's "A-List Awards."

For ticket information for Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words at Broad Stage, phone 310 434 3200 or visit www.celebrityautobiography.com.
 

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