Award-Winning Hit Wishful Drinking comes to Chicago
Broadway In Chicago has announced that Hollywood film star, best-selling novelist, acclaimed screenwriter and newest Jenny Craig spokesperson Carrie Fisher is bringing her award-winning WISHFUL DRINKING to the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) for a limited two-week engagement Oct. 4 - 16, 2011. The archly funny one-woman show is created and performed by Carrie Fisher. Individual tickets for WISHFUL DRINKING go on sale Wednesday, Aug. 10 at 8 a.m.
In WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher recounts the true and intoxicating tale of her life as a Hollywood legend, told with the same wry wit she poured into bestsellers like Postcards from the Edge and The Best Awful. The daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Carrie became a cultural icon when she starred as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy at 19 years old. Forever changed, Carrie's life did not stay picture perfect. Carrie is the life of the party in this uproarious and sobering look at her "Hollywood hangover".
The New York Times raves that WISHFUL DRINKING is, "Extremely funny full-frontal confession. Carrie Fisher makes you feel like you've arrived for a slumber party to swap confidences. You're going to like it. A Lot." Variety exclaims, "Winning and Hilarious! Carrie Fisher is witty, likable, acerbic, clever and wryly forthcoming about the warped reality of life in the celebrity bubble."
WISHFUL DRINKING premiered in 2006, in Los Angeles, and has since completed sell-out runs in theatres across the U.S., culminating in a wildly successful engagement at Broadway's Studio 54 from October 2009-January 2010, winning the prestigious 2010 Outer Critics' Circle Award. Carrie received a 2010 Grammy Nomination in the Best Spoken Word Album category for her bestselling memoir Wishful Drinking.
Wishful Drinking the book, based on the Broadway play, was on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 weeks, and is available in paperback from Simon & Schuster.
An HBO documentary special based on WISHFUL DRINKING was taped at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in New Jersey in June of 2010. It features portions of her stage show, archival footage and interviews with friends and family and is currently nominated for a 2011 Emmy Award.