York Theatre Company Presents Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene Streaming On Demand Beginning April 8!

“Fascinating, essential viewing for fans of both artists. At times, Ms. Lemper really convinces us that she IS a great film star.” —Londontheatre1

 

DON'T MISS THIS EXCITING LIMITED EVENT

 

UTE LEMPER: RENDEZVOUS WITH MARLENE WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY UTE LEMPER

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND BEGINNING APRIL 8, 2021, AT 7PM THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021

 

 

Ute Lemper reveals all in her critically acclaimed show — a magical fusion between theater and cinema!“

" An extraordinary, unforgettable

evening with a sublime artist at the

height of her powers—it should on

no account be missed!”

—Musical Theatre Review

  

The York Theatre Company presents the limited virtual reprise of Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene, a magical fusion of theatre and cinema, gorgeous music that will take you on an intense journey. When Marlene Dietrich phoned a young singer out of the blue, the icon stayed on the line for an unforgettable three hours. 30 years later Broadway and West End star Ute Lemper reveals all in her 5-star critically acclaimed show. Following sold out performances at The York in the fall of 2019 and around the world, Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene has been adapted for the screen with special effects to enhance the production. It was streamed online after being filmed at Club Cumming in New York. Alan Cumming and Ute Lemper are producers.

“Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene means a lot to me,” says Ms. Lemper. “It is my personal homage to that great lady. There are many portraits of Marlene out there, but this one is coming from my heart. Audiences are in for an incredible story; history, fate, courage, style, politics, glamour and sex, talent and a huge career.”

Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene 

WHEN: beginning Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 7:00pm (EDT) and available on demand through midnight on Saturday, April 10, 2021 (EDT).
WHERE: online
TICKETS: $20 ($15 for York Members). 

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SOLO SHOW IN JERSEY CITY INSPIRED BY STORIES OF NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS

WHEN: Feb. 1, 3 PM, 7:30 pm; Feb. 2, 2 PM
WHERE: Merseles Studios, 339 Newark Ave., Jersey City
TICKETS: General admission $30; students/seniors $20
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SELL ME: I Am From North Korea is inspired by the true stories of North Korean defectors who risk everything to escape one of Earth's most repressive regimes. Ms. Baek’s solo performance weaves together relatable young naïveté, the harsh realities of life inside a brutal regime, and the unforgiving struggle of life as an undocumented refugee in order to bring voice to a silenced people.

After reading and researching the harrowing stories of her Northern neighbors, Korean-born playwright and performer Sora Baek was inspired to give voice to this crisis. She wishes to not only share the hardships of North Korea, but the continuing obstacles, stigmas, and prejudices defectors face once they escape. Bringing this story to an American audience will add humanity and nuance to the North Korea question that passes in and out of our current news cycle. North Koreans and their stories deserve to be examined as the world grapples with its response to refugees, humanitarian crises, and the human cost of the rise and perpetuity of dictatorial regimes.

Ms. Baek began working on this story shortly after the birth of her second son. It is her wish that her children grow up in a world that is more welcoming, free, and just than the one she sees around her now. This piece is her contribution to bring about this change in both Koreas, America, and the broader world.

“Dietrich” returns for exclusive one night only performance at Hudson Theatre Works

DIETRICH
by Willard Manus
accompanied by pianist Daisey
starring Cindy Marinangel,

WHEN: Jan. 18th, 8 p.m., following a live piano concert by Russell Daisey at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Hudson Theatre Works, 80 Hauxhurst Ave., Weehawken
TICKETS: $25
Visit www.dietrichplay.com for trailer, more information and to buy tickets.

Dietrich, a compelling and acclaimed one-woman play that brings to life the iconic German actress Marlene Dietrich,  is based on a true story. Set in 1960, the play takes place on the evening the actress returned to the Berlin stage for the first time since fleeing the Hitler regime of the 1930’s. Inside her dressing room at the Tatiana Palast Theater, Dietrich weighs whether to go through with the live performance despite threats on her life by Nazi sympathizers who resented her for having spent much of World War II entertaining American soldiers on the front lines. To them, Dietrich is a turncoat; a traitor who deserves to be shot and killed on stage.

Dietrich (formerly known as Marlene) celebrated its world premiere at the Brickhouse Theatre in Los Angeles (Produced by John Lant – Carnegie Hall), debuted in New York at the Hudson Guild Theatre (Winterfest), and was selected as a finalist for the NY New Works Theatre Festival at the Acorn Theatre. This play-with-music next enjoyed successful limited engagements at The Triad Theatre, a celebrated Off-Broadway house.

Marinangel (born in Westwood, New Jersey) is an international entertainer, a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio and a graduate of the Chicago Second City Conservatory. Marinangel is an avid ballroom dancer and animal rights activist.

Manus is a playwright, journalist and novelist. He is a member of the Playwright/Directors unit of The Actors Studio. His most recent plays are “Joe and Marilyn: A Love Story,” “Frank and Ava” (now a motion picture) and “Who Killed Comrade Rabbit?”

Daisey is an internationally acclaimed pianist, singer and songwriter. He’s performed at The First Hiroshima International Peace Summit (onstage with the Dalai Lama); the Palais des Congres in Paris; before President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ellie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams.

Crash this "diet" before the holidays!

Renée Taylor

starring in

MY LIFE ON A DIET
by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna
Originally Directed by Joseph Bologna

Called “fascinating, lighthearted and spicy” by The New York Times, this hilarious comedy stars the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning writer and actress Renée Taylor, known for her recurring role on television’s The Nanny. In this acclaimed show, she looks back on a life full of memorable roles in Hollywood and on Broadway, and just as many fad diets, all while dishing juicy anecdotes about legends like Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbra Streisand. 

WHEN: Best availability December 11, 13, & 14!
WHERE: George Street Playhouse @ NBPAC, 11 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
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REVIEW: “MY LIFE ON A DIET” TREATS SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH HUMOR

by Ruth Ross

For the second production of their inaugural season at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, the George Street Playhouse has chosen a rather odd piece of theater: Renée Taylor’s autobiographical one-woman show, My Life on a Diet. Based on a memoir she wrote in 1986 with her late husband Joseph Bologna, the piece is more memoir than play. Although it does have a plot of sorts—tracing Taylor’s trajectory from her childhood as chubby Renée Wexler to an Emmy Award-winning performance as Fran Dresher’s overweight mother on The Nanny— her halting, breathy recitation delivered from a chair as slides are projected on a large screen at the back of the stage robbed the play of vitality.

Now in her late eighties, Renée Taylor has trouble walking and, I’d assume, difficulty remembering the large number of lines delivered in a one-woman show. To counter this problem, she reads from a large book, making no effort to disguise the fact that she’s actually reading text. Her attempt to adjust the pillows behind her (until, finally, one fell on the floor) and to maneuver a foot stool that had been placed too far forward were distracting. And because Taylor stays seated, reading, the production feels static, making the 90-minute show feel slow.

That said, there are some redeeming qualities to the show. The tale, centered around a weight problem (sometimes more perceived than actual) that she attempts to solve with a myriad of fad diets is funny, personal and, ultimately, poignant as it reveals the source of Taylor’s need for love, audience and industry appreciation, and success. Taylor rarely departs from reading the script, but when she does (as in a hilarious account of her honeymoon), we get a glimpse of her once-great comedic talent. She often makes unabashed fun of herself, letting us in on the joke.

As Taylor looks back on her long career in Hollywood and on Broadway, she regales us with juicy anecdotes illustrated with slides of her childhood, her parents, the actors she met and worked with, and her meeting and marriage to Joseph Bologna. She recounts weight-loss tips from such stars as Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford. She thought if she could eat like a star, she’d be one.

Her childhood was fraught with ambition and insecurity. The child of two show biz wannabes, she was pushed to live vicariously for her parents. Her father moved the family around the country, one step ahead of the debt collector. Her mother Frieda’s obsession with weight (and celebrity) led Renee to become a self-described “diet tramp”—"someone who eats around.”

In her pursuit of fame, Taylor attends the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, lands a starring role in a play that closes after one performance and gets work in television (weekly appearances on Jack Paar’s Tonight Show and later on Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall). At the Actors’ Studio in the fifties, she befriends Marilyn Monroe whose grape diet (some of the frozen) isn’t successful, but her love for Marilyn is poignant and revealing.

Many of these anecdotes are funny and delivered with good comedic timing. The feeling that she is unlovable, doomed to failure and always fat (no matter what the scale says) is, however, very sobering. That she meets and marries Bologna (their union lasted 53 years) saves her. And her real-life obsession with food was the impetus for her final role on The Nanny that garnered her an Emmy nomination!

Harry Feiner’s scenic design features lots of glitz and animal prints appropriate to Taylor’s show business career. And Michael Redman’s projections appear smoothly onscreen when needed. I wish Christopher Bond could “up” the sound a bit so we’d hear her better.

Underneath the comedy, My Life on A Diet is a ringing indictment of show business’s preoccupation with weight and appearance, similar to the situation addressed in the recent film about Judy Garland starring Renée Zellweger.

Renée Taylor had a career spanning over six decades. I recall seeing her on television when I was a kid, and I was familiar with many of the diets she tried. While it was kind of fun to revisit the highlights of her career, I felt more sad than entertained, from her story and her delivery. If you like nostalgia (and are old enough to have lived through the 50s, 60s and 70s when Renée Taylor was a star), you’ll be entertained. It’s not a play for the young: The four Rutgers University students seated in front of me played on their cell phones the entire time.

My Life on a Diet will be performed at the George Street Playhouse in the beautiful New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, through December 15. For information and tickets, call the box office at 732.246.7717 or visit www.GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.org online.

Renée Taylor Comes to New Jersey with MY LIFE ON A DIET

MY LIFE ON A DIET
by Renée Taylor and Joe Bologna

WHEN: November 19 — December 15, 2019
WHERE: The Arthur Laurents Theater at The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
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Renée Taylor’s award-winning autobiographical comedy MY LIFE ON A DIET will arrive at George Street Playhouse in the Arthur Laurents Theater at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

In MY LIFE ON A DIET, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning writer and actress Renée Taylor looks back on a life full of memorable roles in Hollywood and on Broadway, and just as many fad diets. A self-described “diet junkie” who used to think that if she ate like star, she’d just might look and live like one, Renée dishes out both juicy anecdotes about and weight loss tips from Hollywood legends such as Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Barbra Streisand.

She also shares hilarious and poignant stories about Joseph Bologna, her partner in work and life for 52 years. In telling about her high and lows on and off the scale—this comedy legend proves the ability to laugh gets you through it all.

“We are so fortunate to welcome Ms. Taylor to our new home in the NBPAC this season,” George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint said. “This hilarious show is the perfect opportunity to see an icon

on our stage.”

MY LIFE ON A DIET is written by Ms. Taylor and Joseph Bologna, and was originally directed by Mr. Bologna. It made its New York premiere last summer with a critically acclaimed, extended run Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clements. In November 2018, Ms. Taylor won the annual United Solo Special Award for MY LIFE ON A DIET for her significant contributions to solo theatre during the year.

RENÉE TAYLOR (Performer, Co-Writer). MY LIFE ON A DIET is one of 22 plays, four films, and nine TV movies and series that Renée and Joseph Bologna created together.  Renée and Joe appeared together on Broadway in their plays Lovers and Other Strangers (1968), It Had to Be You (1981), and If you ever leave me … I’m going with you! (2001); and Off-Broadway in Bermuda Avenue Triangle (Promenade Theatre, 1997). For film, they received an Academy Award nomination for the 1970 film adaptation of Lovers and Other Strangers. The following year, they co-wrote and co-starred in Made for Each Other (Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Comedy). Renée and Joe co-directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in the 1989 film adaptation of It Had to Be You, and the 1996 film Love Is All There Is (which introduced a young Angelina Jolie). For television, the couple won Emmy Awards in 1973 for writing “Acts of Love and Other Comedies,” and were nominated once again the following year for writing the TV movie “Paradise.” They co-directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in the 1984 HBO movie “Bedrooms” (Writers Guild Award). Renée made her professional stage debut at 15 in a Purim Pageant at Madison Square Garden, and earned her Actors Equity card at age 19 for appearing in The Rehearsal at The President Theatre. Her other stage credits include: Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Agatha Sue, I Love You (directed by George Abbott); Luv (directed by Mike Nichols); Elaine May’s 1964 improvisational revue The Third Ear; and William Gibson’s Dinny and the Witches at the Cherry Lane Theatre.  Her many film credits also include: Jerry Lewis’ The Errand Boy, Mel Brooks’ The Producers, Elaine May’s A New Leaf, Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Lovesick, White Palace, Life During Wartime, Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, and more recently, The Do-Over and How To Be a Latin Lover. Known for her Emmy nominated role of Sylvia Fine in “The Nanny,” Renée’s other notable TV acting credits include “Daddy Dearest” and the groundbreaking HBO sitcom “Dream On” (she had the distinction of appearing on these three television shows simultaneously).  More recently she has had recurring roles in “How I Met Your Mother,” “Bob’s Burgers,” and “Happily Divorced,” and can currently be seen on Amazon’s “Gown and Out in Beverly Hills.” In addition winning the United Solo Special Award for Outstanding solo show, Renée was recently inducted into the Bronx Jewish Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018 due to the success of MY LIFE ON A DIET.  She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Hofstra University.

JOSEPH BOLOGNA (Co-Writer, Director) was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 30, 1934.  Bologna graduated from Brown University with a degree in art history.  Following a tour with the U.S. Marines, Joe started directing short films and writing special comedy material. Bologna made his Broadway debut as the co-star and co-author of Lovers and Other Strangers, and he made his film debut as the co-star and co-author of Made for Each Other.  His other film credits include Cops and Robbers, Mixed Company, The Big Bus, Chapter Two, My Favorite Year, Blame It on Rio, The Woman in Red, Love Is All There Is and Big Daddy. His television credits include the Emmy-winning television special “Acts of Love and Other Comedies” (co-written with Ms. Taylor), and the made for TV films “Honor Thy Father;” “Paradise;” “What’s New, Catherine Cutis?;” “Torn Between Two Lovers;” and “One Cooks, the Other Doesn't;” among others. An Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning playwright and screenwriter, Joe, with Renée Taylor, his wife and partner of 52 years, collaborated on 22 plays, four film screenplays, and nine TV movies and series.

The national tour of MY LIFE ON A DIET is presented by Julian Schlossberg.

Luna Stage to launch American Voices with Susan Hyon’s “Soo Jin Pretty Nail (and more!)” on September 21

Soo Jin Pretty Nail (and more!)
written and performed by Susan Hyon
directed by David Skeist

WHEN: Saturday, September 21 | Closes: Monday, October 7. Performance Schedule: Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 3:00pm, Monday at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Luna Stage, 555 Valley Road, West Orange, NJ
TICKETS: General Admission tickets $20; BOGOFAM5 $5 student ticket with each adult ticket for Monday Performances
https://www.lunastage.org/calendar.php
973.395.5551
Suggested for mature students, ages 16 and older.
Running Time: 75 minutes, no intermission 

This darkly comic work is inspired by Hyon’s childhood as the youngest of four unhappy Korean-American children in suburban Pennsylvania. A lively, interactive experience for curious and adventurous theatergoers, Soo Jin… will be the inaugural performance in the newly-renovated Luna2. 

Meet Soo Jin and Susan. Susan is the little engine that could pull herself out of a crappy small-town trainwreck only to speed headlong into another of her own making. And another. And another. And yet somehow she keeps chugging along, accumulating scars and the stories that go with them. Soo-Jin is like that Korean exchange student who introduced everyone to Hello Kitty, Keropi, and cute pencils. Upon hearing of Susan's life as a new mom (finally!), Soo Jin appears, ready for a baby shower. Fresh off the boat (and out of the plastic surgeon’s chair), Soo Jin regales the audience with the virtue of beauty. She prays that Susan will maintain her youthful looks in the face of parenthood.

Soo Jin Pretty Nail (and more!) is a play, a stand-up routine, a confession and a therapy session that will probably make you feel better about your life, the world and a good old-fashioned eye-lift. Soo Jin will talk about light things that will make you feel heavy, and Susan will talk about heavy things that make you feel light.

Performer Susan Hyon and director David Skeist met in the Acting MFA program at Columbia University in 2003. In the years since, Susan has been a performer and resident artist with Target Margin and The Atlantic Theater Co. among others, while David has developed work with Richard Foreman, Elizabeth Swados, and his own company Caborca. Together, they have traveled to Italy, Germany, Baltimore, and California, performing Chekhov, Shakespeare, commedia dell’arte, and more.

Director Skeist says “Soo Jin Pretty Nail (and more!) is the opposite of a pre-packaged autobiographical monologue. It is a real encounter with a person, whose idiosyncratic behavior and way of thinking has led her to startling insights, which she bravely shares. Susan is a fascinating and enlightening person to hang out with as we all try to make sense of our current world.”

REVIEW: ENTHRALLING GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION BRINGS ICONIC JAZZ/SOUL PERFORMER TO LIFE

By Ruth Ross

The musical biography has become a popular 21^st century dramatic genre: Jersey Boys (The Four Seasons), Beautiful (Carole King), Summer (Donna Summer) and, more recently, Cher come immediately to mind. Now you can add to that list the World Premiere production of Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical, now onstage at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.

Conceived, written and performed by Laiona Michelle, the story unfolds over the course of two concerts: the first, in 1968, soon after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the second, in Switzerland in 1976. Through Nina Simone’s recollections as she performs, we flashback to her past as a classical music child prodigy (Johann Sebastian Bach was her favorite composer); her fraught relationship with her mother and father (especially the former); her abusive, yet sometimes loving, marriage; her nervous breakdown; her involvement in civil rights activities; her jazz performances; and her ultimate coronation as the High Priestess of Soul.

Michelle literally inhabits the role of Nina Simone, delivering her iconic musical numbers with verve and aplomb, and convincingly voicing each of the many characters in her life. The difference between her 1968 performance and the one in 1976 puts the development of an artist on full display, the latter performer more polished and sure. The unnerving opening scene, where Simone is ushered into the concert hall via a back door to the sound of police sirens and angry voices is emblematic of the time when there was a race war, and Nina Simone was told not to sing protest songs lest she cause a riot. Michelle’s Simone’s anger simmers just below the surface until it finally explodes in “Mississippi Goddam,” which she wrote in response to the killing of the three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, MS.

By the time 1976 rolls around, Simone has moved to Switzerland, has been labeled a jazz musician, escaped her abusive husband Andy and abandoned the church, declaring, “Music is my religion.” Her anger in the second act is more personal than political. Discovered playing piano in church at the age of eight, Eunice Kathleen Waymon (later to become Nina Simone) dreamed of performing at Carnegie Hall, a hope that is dashed by her rejection from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Despite producing more than 40 jazz and soul albums, she continues to insist that she is “classical,” carrying that disappointment throughout her entire life. Michelle’s depiction of the young Nina Simone and her interaction with her mother, who thought jazz was the “devil’s music,” is very poignant, especially because her musical success supported her parents for years. Simone’s emotional fragility is also on full display, with her trio (Mark Fifer, Saadi Zain, Kenneth Alters) very protective of her when she breaks down.

My only quibble with Laiona Michelle’s performance is the very nasal voice she uses when Nina Simone speaks. It sounds more New Jersey than North Carolina and grates on the ears. In YouTube interviews, Simone’s voice, while sounding more cultured, retains some of the softness of her Southern, country roots. That aside, Michelle’s masterful musical delivery puts Simone’s full musical range on display, from the hot “Break Down and Let It All Out,” the aforementioned “Mississippi Goddam” in Act I to the quieter “Little Girl Blue,” “Ne Me Quittez Pas,” “Ooh Child” and “My Way” in the Act II.  In addition to Michelle’s accompaniment of herself on the piano (she plays a mean Bach), the musical direction by Mark Fifer and musicians is superb.

Turning the two concerts into a play also poses a unique challenge, one that is conquered by the magnificent backdrop that telegraphs Simone’s rich inner life to the audience. Inspired by Thomas Hart Benton ‘s “America Today” panels and African textile patterns, set designer Shoko Kambara and scenic charge artist Jim Hancocks and his team created a backdrop featuring a giant keyboard, a bust of Johann Sebastian Bach and a riot of color to take the audience on an “emotional rollercoaster through Ms. Simone’s past.” Ari Fulton’s costumes further invoke the past, especially the fringe, long hair and sideburns so popular in the 1970s.

Perhaps the most touching takeaway from Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical is that she desperately wanted to be loved and accepted for who she was—a feeling that haunted her until her death in 2003. And her love of Bach never wavered as she fused jazz and gospel with classical music. Indeed, just listening to Michelle’s Simone rhapsodize about the nuances and “clinginess” of a Bach fugue is almost worth the price of admission. Laoina Michelle brings this fabulous, albeit troubled, artist to life for an enriching and enlightening evening. You’ll go home humming the title song and invest it with new meaning, for Nina Simone truly was “Little Girl Blue.”

Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical will be performed at the George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, through February 24. For information and tickets, visit www.GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.org online or call the box office at 732.246.7717.

ONE-WOMAN SHOW @ UCPAC

From The Italian Chicks and Scared Skinny, comedian Mary Dimino is back at the UCPAC with Big Dummy!

WHEN: February 9, 2018, at 8 PM
WHERE: Hamilton Stage, 360 Hamilton St., Rahway
TICKETS: VIP $30 ticket includes prime seating, backstage tour, talk back, and Q&A with Mary Dimino
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Comedian Mary Dimino chronicles her colorful Queens childhood as a bright child in a funny, factory-working family with a simple dad as her best friend—until, that is, she outgrows him by age eleven. Follow comedian Mary Dimino in this powerful one-woman show as we discover together that dad is brilliant, AS IS.

In Big Dummy, Dimino explores her own desire to go to college and avoid the stereotypical careers of the time. Mary Dimino is winner of the MAC Award for Outstanding Female Comedian and earned the New York International Fringe Festival's Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Solo Show. Big Dummy is winner of the United Solo Award for its sold out run on Theatre Row.

"Among the best-written and humane shows ever to grace the Fringe. Perfect script, an extraordinary achievement. There are lines—especially near the end—that I will remember the rest of my life." —Hy Bender

ITALIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS BRINGS 1-WOMAN SHOW TO BICKFORD THEATRE

ITALIAN BRED

WHEN: Saturday, August 5, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, August 6, at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre is located at 6 Normandy Heights Road inMorristown
TICKETS: $40 the General Public; $38 Seniors; $35 Museum Members; and $20 Students (18 & under or with valid college ID).
Group rates are available.
Tickets may be purchased online at morrismuseum.org,by phone at (973) 971-3706, or in person at the Bickford Theatre Box Office. The Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre is located at 6 Normandy Heights Road inMorristown, NJ, and offers free parking and full accessibility. Box office hours for phone sales are Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Walk-up hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11:00am to 5:00pm

Actor and comedian Candice Guardino brings her hit one-woman show  to the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre. The show which had a successful and critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run in 2013 has been playing to packed houses across the country for the past couple of years.

Inspired by the acting career of her famous late uncle, Harry Guardino, Candice has based her popular show on her own childhood experiences growing up Italian on Staten Island. This hilarious, heartwarming show includes the unfiltered wisdom of her outspoken grandmother, unique stories of the distinctive personalities of relatives, and video cameos from friends Leslie Jordan (“Will and Grace”), Mario Cantone (“Sex & the City”), Steve Schirripa (“The Sopranos”), and Vic DiBitteto (“Mall Cop 2”).

Candice made a name for herself on the New York theatre scene with her outrageously revealing one-woman show “S.O.S.” which ran at Stage 72 and the Laurie Beechman. Her work has been acclaimed by critics who have called her someone who “Stuns!” and an actor who is “redefining solo performances.” She works with comedy groups such as the Upright Citizens Brigade, The Pit, Cult Comedy, and Second City Showcases. Some of her credits include New York Musical Theatre Festival, the Off-Broadway show “That Other Woman’s Child,” “The Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” and “Law & Order.”

“Whether you are Italian or not, you’ll relate to this very funny and touching show,” says the Bickford Theatre’s Artistic Director Eric Hafen. “I’m sure that our audience will love this extremely talented comedian who possesses a unique storytelling ability.”

ONE-WOMAN SHOW TAKES HUMOROUS LOOK AT LIFE

Arrive early for live music courtesy of pianist Art Mezzo and (non-alcoholic) refreshments sold by Union Rotary.
Music starts 7:30 Saturday, 1:30 Sunday
Come to the Cabaret!

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“CAROL CHANNELING” FOR 2 NIGHTS ONLY IN OCEAN GROVE!

This is a delightful show! I highly recommend it for lovers of vocal divas!

NENA Productions Presents... Maggie Graham's one-woman multi-diva parade! WHEN: Friday 1/15 & Saturday 1/16 @ 8pm WHERE: Herb Herbst Theater, 66 S. Main Street, Ocean Grove, NJ 07756 Seating is limited. For tickets call 732.988.1007 for more about Carol Channeling visit www.carolchanneling.com