The Drama Desk Award-Winning
Celebrity Autobiography
Performs Saturday, September 28
At Bayshore, Long Island‘s Boulton Center
Monday, September 30
In NYC At Stage 72 (Formerly The Triad)
Casts Include Mindy Cohn, Tate Donovan, Rachel Dratch, Christopher Fitzgerald, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Steve Schirripa, Christopher Sieber, Jennifer Tilly,
Aida Turturro, Michael Urie
The New York Times Critic’s Pick
*************************************
The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography will return on Saturday, September 28 at the Boulton Center for Performing Arts (37 West Main St., Bay Shore) at 8 pm, and on Monday, September 30 at Stage 72 (formerly The Triad, 158 W. 72nd Street) at 7 pm.
Created and developed by Emmy-award nominated writer/performer Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography features a first rate comedic ensemble performing from the actual memoirs of a wide range of celebrities. The passages run the gamut from the “poetry” of Suzanne Somers to the shocking “romance tips” from Tommy Lee to the most famous Hollywood love triangle in history — Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
Tickets for Celebrity Autobiography at the Boulton Center may be purchased by contacting ovationTix at 866-811-4111, or by visiting http://celebrityautobiography.com/.
Tickets for Celebrity Autobiography at Stage 72 can be purchased by visiting http://www.smarttix.com/.
The casts are scheduled to include:
Bayshore, Long Island on September 28
Mindy Cohn, Christopher Fitzgerald, Christopher Sieber, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Aida Turturro
New York, NY on September 30–
Mindy Cohn, Tate Donovan, Rachel Dratch, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Steve Schirripa, Jennifer Tilly, and Michael Urie
Celebrity Autobiography, created by Eugene Pack and developed by Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, feature a line-up of rotating performers who read—in both solo and ensemble pieces— the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous in their autobiographies.
Celebrity Autobiography has recently toured nationally and internationally with acclaimed performances in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago, Arizona, Austin, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Sydney Opera House, as well as an ongoing production at Los Angeles’s Broad Stage. The show also plays at London’s Leicester Square Theatre to critical and popular acclaim.
The original Celebrity Autobiography has played to sell-out audiences and rave reviews in New York since its opening in September 2008 when 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.” Sam Thielman of Variety wrote, “Audience members hyperventilate. It should lead a long and happy life.” Michael Riedel of the New York Post called it “the funniest show in town, hands down.” And Entertainment Weekly said that Celebrity Autobiography is one of New York’s most buzzed-about shows” while New York magazine called it “brilliant.” 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.”
