VTA Presents Carrie Fisher in WISHFUL DRINKING, 4/10-22

By: Mar. 27, 2012
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Victoria Theatre Association's 2011-2012 Premier Health Partners Broadway Series welcomes Hollywood film star, best-selling novelist, acclaimed screenwriter and Jenny Craig spokesperson Carrie Fisher in her award-winning Wishful Drinking to the historic Victoria Theatre from April 10-22, 2012. The archly funny one-woman show is created and performed by Carrie Fisher. Tickets are on sale now at the Ticket Center Stage Box Office, via phone 888-228-3630 or 937-228-3630, and online at www.ticketcenterstage.com. Ticket Center Stage is the only outlet authorized to sell tickets for events at the Schuster Center and Victoria Theatre.

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".

Book Signing, April 13 at Books & Co.

Carrie Fisher will be signing her books, Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic on Friday, April 13 at 1 PM. Ms. Fisher will be signing BOOKS ONLY, no memorabilia is allowed. Line numbers will be distributed beginning at 12 PM, starting with #21. Please show your Books & Co. receipt for either Wishful Drinking or Shockaholic to get a line number. If patrons are bringing their own copy of the books, please show it to the staff handing out numbers. The Book Signing will end PROMPTLY at 3 PM.

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 nominated for a 2011 Emmy Award.

Fisher recently released her 6th book, Shockoholic, a funny and surprisingly poignant memoir of a singular life, available from Simon & Schuster.

For tickets call Ticket Center Stage at 937-228-3630, 888-228-3630, online at www.ticketcenterstage.com or visit the Box Office in person, located in the Wintergarden of the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center in downtown Dayton. Ticket Center Stage is the only outlet authorized to sell tickets for events at the Schuster Center and Victoria Theatre.

 

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