Fame Takes a Holiday
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 28, 2000
Closed Nov 19, 2000
Opened Oct 28, 2000
Closed Nov 19, 2000
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Abigail Gampel, Deborah LaCoy, Susan Murphy, and Mary Purdy perform clasic sketches by the all-girl comedy group, The High Heeled Women. Fame Takes a Holiday is written by Cassandra Danz, Mary Fulham, and Warren Leight (author of Sideman). This hilarious backstage play is about the aspirations and machinations of a comedy group on the threshold of success.
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No doubt it is Warren Leight's name that's drawing many people to La Mama to see Fame Takes a Holiday, a darling little play about a four-woman comedy troupe. Leight made quite an impression with his last effort, Side Man, but it might be hard to believe this light comic song-and-sketch show came from the same guy. Well, not completely; Leight shares co-authorship with Cassandra Danz and the show's director, Mary Fulham.
Fame Takes a Holiday is a play--or, perhaps more accurately, an "entertainment"--based on a comedy act called The High Heeled Women, for which the trio once wrote; the act played the New York circuit of clubs, concert halls, and dives throughout the '80s. This bac[...]