After popular demand, Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical comedy Wishful Drinking, currently playing at the Seattle Rep, was extended through May 9, 2009. Now they have just announced that the show will make its Broadway premiere in September.
Wishful Drinking marks the strongest sales Seattle Rep has seen since Lily Tomlin brought her one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, to the theatre in 2000.
Wishful Drinking plays now through May 9, 2009 and tickets start at just $25 and are still available for the few remaining performances before it heads off to Broadway. Go to www.seattlerep.org for more info.
Here’s the scoop about the play:
Let Hollywood legend Carrie Fisher take you on a hilarious, shocking and totally true ride through her own Hollywood party…and hangover. With the same unflinching wit that made her book Postcards from the Edge a bestseller, Fisher dishes on her unbelievable life: Debbie Reynolds is her mother, Paul Simon was her husband (for a while), and in between battling addiction and vacationing in various mental institutions, she happened to star in a little film called Star Wars. Fisher’s tale is a tabloid vivant the Los Angeles Times calls a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.”
