Celebrity autobiography 2015
Performers include Tony Award winner Roger Bart (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Producers), Tony Award nominee Mario Cantone (Laugh Whore, Assassins), Honeymoon in Vegas star Tony Danza, Drama Desk winner Tracee Chimo, Tony nominee David Harbour, "SNL"'s Sasheer Zamata, Emmy nominee Eugene Pack and more. Now in its sixth year, Celebrity Autobiography is an evening of entertainment in which performers act out excerpts from a range of celebrity tell-alls, from Justin Bieber to Gwyneth Paltrow to Beyoncé. It is described as a "unique, no holds-barred show unlike anything else in New York!"
The show is created by Pack and Dayle Reyfel and produced by Angelo Fraboni, Peter Martin, Rick Newman, EP Productions and Reyfel.
Tickets can be purchased online at BrownPaperTickets.com or by phone at (800) 838-3006. For more information, visit CelebrityAutobiography.com. The Triad is located at Stage 72, 158 West 72nd St.
The celebrity memoir boom is here to stay: From Britney Spears to Prince Harry, Ina Garten to Cher, it seems like just about everyone is spilling their secrets via book deal.
At their best, celebrity memoirs provide unusually candid portraits of the “real person” behind the public persona—and they don’t skimp on the dirty details. (At worst, they can be ghostwritten fluff.) A recent crop has erred on the side of revelatory: In the last year, Al Pacino let us in on his life from childhood in the South Bronx to his big break in ’70s Hollywood, while the long-gestating memoirs of Lisa Marie Presley came through as a posthumous release, written with daughter Riley Keough. Whether offering vibrant vignettes of iconic periods in time or shining a light on grief, explosive relationships, and the sinister underbelly of showbusiness, these books (and others) have given fans plenty to talk about—to say nothing of making rather good gifts.
Ahead, Vogue rounds up the best of the genre for your reading pleasure.
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (2024)
Kelly Bishop—a.k.a. Emily Gilmore—narrates 60 decades, reaching back long before Amy Sherman Palladino’s generationally beloved Gilmore Girls. We meet Bishop as a young ballet dancer and a Broadway mainstay, following her through career highlights like A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, All My Children, and, of course, her time in Stars Hollow, which she writes about in rich detail with juicy little titbits from set. Just so you know, she’s Team Logan. —Anna Cafolla
Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher (2024)
This is a memoir magnum opus. Several chapters in, the singer, actor, gay icon, and soundbite machine Cher has only just reached adolescence. Four hundred and twenty pages in, and Part One wraps in the ’80s. But what a gift it is to meet a young Cheryl Sarkisian and learn of her formation in such vibrant, full-bodied detail. It’s thrilling, stuffed with high-octane stories of hanging out with the Be
Back at the GRAMMY Museum with new material by popular demand! As seen on Bravo TV, you’ll enjoy a night of nonstop laughter as you experience a variety of jaw-dropping vignettes inspired and torn straight from the pages of the most unforgettable music tell-alls and more. Originally created by Emmy-nominated writer/performer Eugene Pack and developed by Pack and Dayle Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography has been profiled in virtually every major media outlet, including Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The View. The national and international tours of the show garnered rave reviews across the board — from The New York Times to Rolling Stone and Time magazine. For this special installment, outrageous and true music memoirs will be acted out live onstage by a starry cast of performers. Artists currently scheduled to appear include Kristen Johnston, Jennifer Tilly, Roger Bart, Fred Willard, Debbie Harry, Steven Weber, Laraine Newman, Dayle Reyfel and Eugene Pack, with additional guests to be announced soon.
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Celebrity Autobiography starring Lewis Black, Chris Bauer, Susan Lucci, Alan Zweibel, Eugene Pack, & Dayle Reyfel
Starring: Lewis Black, Susan Lucci, Chris Bauer, Julia Macchio, Alan Zweibel, Dayle Reyfel, Eugene Pack, and more!
Straight from Broadway! Celebrity Autobiography – with new memoirs! This is the Drama Desk Award-winning hit comedy show where celebrities act out “hot off the press” & hard-to-believe-they-wrote-‘em tell-alls. Created by Emmy Award-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack and developed by Pack and Dayle Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography is an international hit show -from Broadway, London’s West End to Australia’s Sydney Opera House. CRITIC’S PICK –NY Times, “FUNNIEST SHOW IN TOWN, HANDS DOWN!” –Michael Reidel, NY Post
Also performing at 9:30pm
Lewis Black
Known as the king of the rant, LEWIS BLACK uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and animated finger-pointing to skewer anything and anyone that gets under his skin. His comedic brilliance lies in his ability to make people laugh at the absurdities of life, with topics that include current events, social media, politics and anything else that exposes the hypocrisy and madness he sees in the world.
Receiving critical acclaim as a stand-up, actor and author, Black has performed for audiences throughout Europe, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. In 2012, he performed eight sell-out shows at Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway.
Born in Washington D.C. on Aug. 30, 1948, Black was raised in Silver Spring, Md. Colicky as a baby, he was destined to be angry and easily irritated. His mother, a teacher, and his father, a mechanical engineer, instilled the importance of education and the necessity to question authority—lessons that influenced Black throughout his life. He fell in love with the theatre at age 12, after seeing his first play, which led to pursuing a career in drama. Degrees followed from th