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OFFICIAL PROGRAM for BROADWAY in DETROIT at the Gem Theatre MADE IN OFFICIAL PROGRAM FOR BROADWAY IN DETROIT AT THE Gem Theatre MADE IN COLLECTS ELEPHANT FIGURINES. CHEERFUL. PLAYS THE PIANO FOR ALL TO ENJOY. AMERICAN HOUSE SOUTHLAND RESIDENT. 100 % ETHEL WANZER XL DOER We have character. Thousands of them, actually. Like Ethel, our residents won’t just steal the show... they’ll steal your heart. Visit americanhouse.com/testimonials to watch videos and learn more about our incredible cast of characters. For information on our communities visit americanhouse.com or call (800) 351-5224. Residences • Dining • Activities • Education • Wellness • Transportation • Support Services* TDD (800) 649-3777 *Support Services provided by third party not affiliated with American House. job number: 50105_F10_C1-1 date: 08/01/11 client: RLX advertiser: RLX dtp: color: cs: acct: client: please contact thelab at 212-209-1333 with any questions or concerns regarding these materials. LOVE, LOSS, aNd WHAt I WORE Life, Accessorized By Monty Arnold, Playbill.com, October 16, 2009 It’s a chick thing, Nora Ephron is basically saying about this play she and her sister Delia have written —and Nora would know. The phrase “chick tive, because you read it and you start think- flick” entered our lexicon via her Oscar- and ing of your own clothes, whether they were BAFTA-nominated script for Sleepless in anything like hers or not. Seattle, where she cinematically separated “We used her story as part of the play, but the boys from the girls what we were going for and called leaping into was the same reactions a lugubrious tub of in the audience. Even suds like An Affair to those of us who aren’t Remember a ladies- into fashion can date only enterprise. our life by our clothes from left: Sonia Manzano, Loretta Swit, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Emily Dorsch and Daisy Eagan star in the first national Now, fashion (or, and the mistakes we tour of Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore. photo © Carol Rosegg more accurately, made expressing our- women’s wear) is the selves through our probably don’t realize that, but women re- other’s the editor or suggester.” Ephron flash point, clothes. member everything in terms of what they The Ephrons got their play up and at ‘em and The Great Divide “You know, be- were wearing the night it happened. Once we in a series of Monday night workshops last begins all over again fore you can go on got all this wonderful material, we then start- winter at their producer Daryl Roth’s DR2 with Love, Loss, and the street by yourself ed to prune and shape monologues with it. Theatre. “One of the things we found is that What I Wore, based on or decide what you “It covers a huge range of things—every- people wouldn’t leave,” Delia says. “They Ilene Beckerman’s wa- feel like eating, you thing from your first bra to a girl who throws gathered in the lobby afterwards and want- fer-thin 1995 memoir are allowed to dress her twenties away on a terrible guy to people ed to talk about their lives and their clothes on how she dressed for yourself. It’s one of who wear black to what a woman wears to and what happened to them. They were just the seminal moments Playwrights Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. the earliest ways you visit the man she loves in prison to a piece on flooded with memories. It’s a powerful piece of her life—sort of a photo © Carol Rosegg have of saying, ‘This how we hate our purses.” Seeing the last re- because it stirs that up.” The Way We Wore ver- is who I am today.’ So, quires explaining, she offers: “What we hate Ladies, start your engines! sion of The Way We Were. The Ephrons de- for women, clothes just become this constant is what’s inside the purse. We hate the mess scribe it as “The Vagina Monologues with- thing of ‘Who am I?’/’Is this me?’/’Who about our lives that is reflected by what’s in Postscript: On December 20, 2011 Mark out the vagina,” and, keeping that thought, do I want people to think I am?’/’Can I get our purse.” Kennedy of the Associated Press reported: they installed it at the same Westside The- away with this?’/’Who was I when I bought Writing together is the family trade. Nora “Since debuting… the show has taken on a atre where the V-word held fast for more than this?’/’What on earth was I thinking?’ and Delia are the daughters of a celebrated life of its own. This fall it celebrated its sec- three years. For this opening salvo of twelve “It’s a very emotional piece. It’s not about screenwriting team, Henry and Phoebe Eph- ond anniversary at its permanent home in the weeks, they have three sets of rotating casts fashion. It’s about women’s lives, and the way ron, that eased many a stage hit on to the Westside Theatre… and it also has played on of five each. The hope, of course, is that their to talk about them is through their clothes. screen (Carousel, John Loves Mary, Desk six continents—in 14 countries as different show will evolve into a cottage industry like To me, it’s an amazing window into looking Set) and occasionally gave back to Broadway as France and Argentina. Eve Ensler’s evening of girl talk. at women’s lives. There’s a reason it’s Love, (their Take Her, She’s Mine was prompted by “Over 100 actresses have felt the power, “We started out very much thinking it Loss, and What I Wore.” Nora’s letters home from college). The sis- including Samantha Bee, Alexis Bledel, would be that kind of evening,” Nora re- Beckerman’s eschewed life-view was so ters grew up Princesses of the Apthorp, in- Kristin Chenoweth, Tyne Daly, Fran Dre- members, “monologues and group ensemble insistently identifiable the Ephrons jumped veterate West Siders whose affection for the scher, Janeane Garofalo, Melissa Joan Hart, pieces and sketches—just a very free-form right in and gave it a universal spin. “We neighborhood was vibrantly visual in You’ve Carol Kane, Minka Kelly, Jane Lynch, Na- thing that, nonetheless, goes through all the sent out e-mails and questionnaires and in- Got Mail, This Is My Life and When Harry tasha Lyonne, Rosie O’Donnell, Rhea Perl- stages of a woman’s life.” terviewed people about their life and their Met Sally. man, Caroline Rhea, Doris Roberts, Sherri She found the book in galley form and clothes,” recalls Delia. “All of our friends “We do every form of collaborating that Shepherd and Brooke Shields.” flipped over it, even though Beckerman was sent us stories. I mean, the thing about your you can do,” beams Nora. “We write togeth- The performances of Love, Loss, and speaking from a slightly older perspective. clothes is that it’s not just your clothes—it’s er. We write separately together. On some- What I Wore at Detroit’s Gem Theatre are “It’s her life story told through her clothes, the memories of what happened to you when thing like this, one of us might write most part of the show’s first national tour, which but it’s a magical little book, weirdly interac- you were wearing them. If you’re a guy, you of a piece or take the first pass at it, and the began January 3, 2012. 4 5 Since 1971, Prlanta has been known for its exclusive selection of fine and custom jewelry at wholesale prices. Our team of skilled designers, proficient Proof: 12/29/11; 11:52AM goldsmiths, and meticulous stone setters work diligently with you Prlanta Fine Jewelry to make all of your jewelry dreams a reality. Publication: Broadway in Detroit program for “American Idiot” Run dates: Jan. 24–Feb 5 Size: 1/2 pg. horiz. (4-5/8” x 3-3/4”) For: Nederlander Detroit Hours (Fisher Theatre & others) Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri • 10–6 Design: Frank Bach, Thursday • 10–7 Bach & Associates; Saturday • 10–5 Phone 313-822-43038; by 888 W. Big Beaver Road • Suite 115 [email protected] Troy, Michigan 48084 (248) 362-3888 www.Prlanta.com FOR ELEGANCE & SOPHISTICATION, CHOOSE THE JEWELER’S JEWELER. Cast Emily Dorsch Daisy Eagan Sonia Manzano Loretta Swit Myra Lucretia Taylor Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Jo Winiarski Ren LaDassor Jeff Croiter Walter Trarbach Casting Booking Tara Rubin Casting AWAAWA Theatrical Tour ingBooking Production Stage Manager Production Manager Lucia Lombardi Shannon Case General Manager Associate Producer Company Manager DR Theatrical Management Alexander Fraser Susan Guszynski Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP www.honigman.com Directed by Karen Carpenter This production proudly supports Dress for Success. Audience members are invited to donate gently-used purses and other accessories in the theatre lobby. 6 7 WE COULD TELL YOU WHY YOU SHOULD GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO. SCENES Gingy’s Story But they said it better. My Mother Clothesline—What My Mother Said The Bathrobe Holly’s Story Gingy’s Story, continued Clothesline—The Bra The Prom Dress Madonna The Gang Sweater Boots Clothesline—The Dressing Room The Shirt Gingy’s Story, continued Lynne’s Story Sisters Clothesline—The Closet Gingy’s Story, continued Annie’s Story Fat/Thin Shoes Clothesline—I Just Want to Say I Hate My Purse Brides Clothesline—Black Gingy’s Story, continued Geralyn’s Story Gingy’s Story THE AUTHORS WISH TO THANK THE WOMEN WHO CONTRIBUTED THEIR STORIES: Amanda Abarbanel-Rice, Heather Chaplin, Nancy De Los Santos Reza, Gail Kass, Alex Leo, Geralyn Lucas, Merrill Markoe, Holly Millea, Stephanie Mnookin, Anne Navasky, Pamela Newton, Rosie O’Donnell, Shira Piven, Mary Rodgers, Elizabeth Segal, Nancy Short, Alex Witchel, Lisa Zeiler for you at The University of Toledo.
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