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It is my pleasure to announce further casting for Sondheim on Sondheim, directed and conceived by frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine. Joining Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams will be Tom Wopat, Euan Morton, Norm Lewis, and Matthew Scott.

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It is my pleasure to announce that our second production at Studio 54 this season will be the new original Broadway musical Sondheim on Sondheim, directed and conceived by frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine. The production will star Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams.
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Carrie Fisher’s solo tell-all, Wishful Drinking, opening at Studio 54 this fall, finds laughs amid the lurid details of her life.

Carrie Fisher’s one-woman play Wishful Drinking is a raw, dishy, caustic memoir. She got the inspiration to write it after seeing the solo comic monologues of such actors as John Leguizamo, Julia Sweeney, and Spalding Gray. Fisher realized she had plenty of material to work with because she’d had to write some witty patter and perky anecdotes when asked (endlessly!) at award ceremonies to introduce Star Wars creator George Lucas, who directed her as Princess Leia, or actress Meryl Streep, who played her semi-autobiographical self in the film version of her novel, Postcards from the Edge

“I was already speaking out a lot,” she says. “I was getting awards myself—for being mentally ill. Over time, I evolved these speeches into these little monologues, covering different areas.” So Fisher figured, why not mine her tipsy-turvy life as a Hollywood survivor, a drug addict, and a poster child for bipolar disorder?
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