Broadway sensation, will present a night of laughter and celebrity
insight at Davidson College on Wednesday evening, March 9. The show
begins at 8 p.m. in the Duke Family Performance Hall. Tickets are
available online at http://www.davidson.edu/tickets.
Created and developed by Emmy Award-nominated writer-performer Eugene
Pack and Dayle Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography features a first-rate
comedic ensemble performing from the actual memoirs of a wide range of
celebrities. It's all in their own words! The passages run the gamut
from the insight of Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers to the
shocking "romance tips" from Tommy Lee to the most famous Hollywood
love triangle in history---Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and
Eddie Fisher.
The cast members for the Davidson College performance will include
Saturday Night Live (SNL) alumni Jim Breuer, Melanie Hutsell, and
Casey Wilson; original SNL writer and Emmy Award-winner Alan Zweibel;
and the show creators of Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel.
Celebrity Autobiography has been one of the most critically acclaimed
productionsever in the Off-Broadway scene and one of the most "buzzed
about shows" of recent years. It ran for three sold out years in New
York, and won both the 2009 Drama Desk Award in the category of
"Unique Theatrical Experience" and a 2010 Bistro Award.
Celebrity Autobiography is a part of the C. Shaw & Nancy K. Smith
Artist Series and is sponsored by the Union Board, the major student
programming organization at the college. Made up of 19 students, the
Union Board and its 10 committees program events for the Davidson
campus every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
For more information on Celebrity Autobiography visit http://www.celebrityautobiography.com
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Davidson is a highly selective independent liberal arts college for
1,800 students located 20 minutes north of Charlotte in Davidson, N.C.
Since its establishment in 1837 by Presbyterians, the college has
graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently regarded as one of
the topliberal arts colleges in the country. Through The Davidson
Trust, the college became the first liberal arts institution in the
nation to replace loans with grants in all financial aid packages,
giving all students the opportunity to graduate debt-free. Davidson
competes in NCAA athletics at the Division I level, and a longstanding
Honor Code is central to student life at the college.
