Joan Rivers theater project to workshop in San Francisco

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:21pm

For a summer special, the Magic Theatre has snagged Joan Rivers, who will star in a workshop production of her new autobiographical play. Co-authored with Doug Bernstein and Denis Markell, the tentatively titled Joan Rivers Theatre Project is set in a dressing room just before Hollywoodճ biggest award show, as Joan must muster all her strength and ingenuity to survive yet another year under the thumb of a new network executive.

The creative team, led by director Mark Rucker, will continue developing the piece through its Aug. 21-Sept. 2 run, and performances will be followed by a talkback with Rivers as a part of the process. Critics, however, will not be invited to weigh in.

Two special preview performances will benefit organizations that address issues affecting the LGBT community in the Bay Area. The Aug. 16 performance will benefit Positive Resource Center, and the Aug. 17 performance benefits Magnet. Call 441-8822 or go to magictheatre.org.


Ol' Woman River

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:23pm

Hope it is better than Sally Marr.

[Anna_Elizabeth]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 9:39pm

Thanks for posting the information. I'd be curious to see it.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 6:59am

Sounds great!

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She made her Broadway debut in Fun City, a 1972 comedy she co-wrote with her late husband Edgar Rosenberg and Lester Colodny. She did a run as Kate, the mother, in the 1980s Neil Simon comedy Broadway Bound. And she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1994 for her performance in the title role of Sally Marr...and her escorts, which she also wrote, along with Lonny Price and Erin Sanders. That's about a play every ten years. And right on schedule, she's come up with a new stage project for the first decade of the 21st century. Called The Joan Rivers Theatre Project for now, it began a workshop at San Francisco's Magic Theatre on Aug. 16. Rivers talked to Playbill.com about her recurring need to return to the theatre.

Playbill.com: Where did you get the inspiration for this new play?

Joan Rivers: It's based on something that happened to me at the TV Guide Channel that was outrageous, and I thought, "This will make a great play."

Read more at link:
PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Joan Rivers

[MaxVonMayerling2]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:05am

I just love Joan Rivers! Her one woman show was hilarious.
Just for the heck of it.. here's a line from "An audience with Joan Rivers" (which she taped for Britsih TV):

[reading a list of celebrities who couldn't make it that night]
Joan Rivers: Paris Hilton - she's doing a new reality show: I'm a Celebrity, Get Him Out of Me... Joan Collins - she's at the British museum being carbon dated, I understand that. Oh, come on, "She's very young" Please! I remember when that bitch was older than I was! No, but I gotta lot of respect for her. I love women who wear wigs and then a hat on top.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:19am

That Joan Collins comment is hilarious.

[HughE2030]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 11:53am

I just read that Joan Rivers and Melissa were fired from TV Guide. no more Red Carpet gigs so she will have plenty of time to take to the stage.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:36pm

Why in the world does anyone give this woman a job? She was funny for 15 minutes 25 years ago. And Melissa? Oh please!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 3:35pm

Joan Rivers is a brilliant comedienne. She still has it after all these years. Just check out her weekly stand-up at The Cutting Room if you have doubts. She has the audience choking with laughter.

[MaryG]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 3:38pm

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