Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner Join Producing Team of 'Beebo Brinker'

Tony Award winner Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have joined the producing team of Off-Broadway's Beebo Brinker Chronicles.  This stage adaptation of Ann Bannon's groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s begins previews February 19 at 37 Arts. Written by Kate Moira Ryan (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play) and Linda S. Chapman (Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Well), the production stars Jenn Colella (High Fidelity, Urban Cowboy) in the title role. Opening night is slated for March 5.

"Fueled by booze and furtive sex, Beebo Brinker Chronicles follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit," explain press notes.

In addition to Tomlin and Wagner, the producing team includes Harriet Newman Leve (STOMP, The 39 Steps), Elyse Singer (Mae West's Sex, Trouble in Paradise) Jamie DeRoy (Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Coram Boy), Pam Laudenslager (The 39 Steps), Douglas Denoff (The 39 Steps) and Double Play Connections (Radio Golf).

In addition to Colella, the new production also stars David Greenspan (2007 Obie for Some Men and Faust), Carolyn Baeumler (Trouble In Paradise), Bill Dawes (Gross Indecency / Burning Blue), Autumn Dornfeld (The Graduate), and Marin Ireland (Obie Award for Cyclone).

The design team includes Rachel Hauck (set), Theresa Squire (costumes), Nicole Pearce (lights), Jill BC DuBoff (sound), J. Jared Jana/Rob Greene (wigs, hair & makeup), Pamela Edington (stage manager),  Bradley Thompson (production manager) and Roy Gabay (general manager). The original production was produced by Hourglass Group at The Fourth Street Theatre and has been nominated for a 2008 GLAAD Media Award.

Beebo Brinker Chronicles runs February 19 - April 27 with performances   Tues. at 7pm; Wed, Thus. & Fri. at 8PM; Sat. at 5PM & 9PM; and Sun. at 3PM & 7PM. 37 Arts is located at 450 West 37th Street (between 9th & 10th Aves. -- accessible from A,C,E trains to 34th St). Tickets are $46.25 - $56.25. To buy tickets call 212-307-4100 or visit www.TicketMaster.com.

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