Loretta Swit Leads Arizona Premiere of LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE

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's Scottsdale cast will feature five actresses, including Loretta Swit, a star of the long-running television comedy M*A*S*H.

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 and a Broadway.com Audience 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 a rotating cast of five actresses who perform in five-week cycles. Members of the 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. The complete Scottsdale cast will be announced in December.

Loretta Swit became an American icon starring as Major Margaret 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.

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 whose work includes the novels Hanging Up and Big City Eyes. Her best-selling book How to Eat Like a Child was adapted as a musical for television and subsequently became a theatrical musical for children.

Ilene Beckerman, the author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, was nearly 60 when she began her writing career. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Ladies Home Journal, among many other places.

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