In Their Own Words
The theatre was small… the stage barely held four people standing with mics in front of them… The only scenery to speak of were red and black panels of cloth, and the performers all wore street clothes.We sat on bistro chairs, and they were packed nice and tight.
Not your typical night of theatre, but easily one of the funniest nights in memory. Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words was so random, outrageous, and amazing — but most of all, it was incredibly telling.
From Kenny Loggins‘ love letter to his wife that was more like a love letter to himself… to Hedy Lamar’s addiction to stardom:”Once you’ve been a star, everything else is poverty”… to Neil Sadaka’s fascination with his dietary habits — the details bordered on compulsive, and could bore a dietitian, or make her laugh until she cried, like we did.
Suzanne Somers fashioned herself as a poet, and claimed that houseplants were running her life. She wished she didn’t have to get a babysitter for them. Eminem spent pages going on and on about an incident at an awards show… if only he did more than take the same ten words and jumble the syntax in sentence after sentence. And Marilu Henner chastised the public for eating dairy, claiming it lowers libido.
These are things you just can’t make up!!! But the funniest line of the night was when a father leaned over to his teenage daughter as we heard a passage from Maddona’s Sex book and said, “Don’t tell your mother you’re hearing any of this.”
Enjoy!
–Sue
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