David Sedaris Set for Capital Stage's 'Out & Bold' Evening, 12/9

Capital Stage has announced the next "Out & Bold" night for the GLBT community and their friends on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Out & Bold night is an opportunity for members and friends of the GLBT community to meet new people, re-connect with other theatre-goers, enjoy a drink, and experience Capital Stage's bold, intimate style of live theatre.

"Out & Bold" will feature pre-show wine reception starting at 6:15 pm aboard the Delta King and as a special holiday treat Artistic Differences Christmas Carolers will perform songs of the season. Following the singers will be a performance of Capital Stage's current production "The SantaLand Diaries" by bestselling author and NPR contributor David Sedaris at 7:00 pm. Tickets are at a special Wednesday reduced rate of $15 if purchased through the box office at 916-995-5464 or can be purchased on-line at the regular ticket price of $27 at www.capstage.org.

David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor. Sedaris was first publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay The SantaLand Diaries. He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. Each of his five subsequent essay collections have become New York Times Best Sellers. His books have collectively sold millions of copies. Much of Sedaris's humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality, and his life in France with his boyfriend, Hugh Hamrick.

Based on the outlandish and true chronicles of the best-selling author's stint as Crumpet the Elf in Macy's holiday display, the story follows David, a would be soap opera writer, as he struggles to make it in New York. Unemployed and low on cash, he takes the "full-time Elf job" and soon zeros in on inane work place policies, his fellow dispirited imps and the not-so-jolly revolving Santas. And what would SantaLand be without a gaggle of exasperated holiday shoppers? Witty, sardonic and unpredictable, Sedaris mercilessly cuts through the Christmas spirit to point out the insane things we do during that most wonderful time of the year.

Capital Stage Artistic Associate Janis Stevens (American Buffalo, Fool for Love) will direct long-time Foothill Theatre Company member Gary Alan Wright in this one-man tour de force.

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