Post by Erika on Nov 1, 2005 13:59:49 GMT -5
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Here is a new article..and a complimenting one for Elizabeth!
Sorry for the delay, but last week’s big annual “24 Hour Plays” featured — guess who? —Elizabeth Berkley in a comedy.
You forget that this tall beauty did anything else besides “Showgirls.” But she’s even done a Woody Allen movie.
In the “24 Hour Plays” on Broadway, she held her own live on stage with Tony-winner Cady Huffman, ex-Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy and “All Shook Up” star Cheyenne Jackson.
Berkley is married to artist Greg Lauren, nephew of designer Ralph. They are so frighteningly good-looking that they cause a glare in heavy rainstorms.
The week before the “24 Hour Plays,” I ran into them at The New York Academy of Art’s "Take Home A Nude," a charity event sponsored by De Beers and the Diamond Information Center that featured Marilyn Manson’s fiancée, Dita Von Teese, doing a burlesque act covered in diamonds.
Lauren told me he was very pleased because he’d sold a painting in the silent auction — and does not know to whom.
If you check out his Web site, Lauren has some incredibly witty portraits he’s imagined of superheroes. One of them shows a Batman-like guy squiring a Wonder Woman-type gal into hot-looking Batmobile-like vehicle. It’s called Page Six. Very funny!
But back to the “24 Hour Plays.” They’re produced each year to support a charity called Working Playground. Actors, writers and directors meet at a hotel and cook up half a dozen new plays on Sunday that they will produce on Monday night. Everyone starts from scratch. They use the existing set at the American Airlines Theater for the show currently playing — in this case, “The Girl on the Appian Way.”
Any one of the six plays we saw was funnier and better executed than most of the stuff we see on “Saturday Night Live.”
Warren Leight, award-winning author of “Sideman,” always contributes a play. Because he works on “Law and Order Criminal Intent,” his “In the Dark” cast included Kathryn Erbe.
Some of the other name actors in the various plays included, to varying effect, everyone from the sublime Kate Burton to the more theatrically-challenged Hayden Christensen.
The overall scene-stealer of the night was Rachel Dratch, who, coincidentally, is the saving grace at this point of “Saturday Night Live.”
Here is a new article..and a complimenting one for Elizabeth!
Sorry for the delay, but last week’s big annual “24 Hour Plays” featured — guess who? —Elizabeth Berkley in a comedy.
You forget that this tall beauty did anything else besides “Showgirls.” But she’s even done a Woody Allen movie.
In the “24 Hour Plays” on Broadway, she held her own live on stage with Tony-winner Cady Huffman, ex-Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy and “All Shook Up” star Cheyenne Jackson.
Berkley is married to artist Greg Lauren, nephew of designer Ralph. They are so frighteningly good-looking that they cause a glare in heavy rainstorms.
The week before the “24 Hour Plays,” I ran into them at The New York Academy of Art’s "Take Home A Nude," a charity event sponsored by De Beers and the Diamond Information Center that featured Marilyn Manson’s fiancée, Dita Von Teese, doing a burlesque act covered in diamonds.
Lauren told me he was very pleased because he’d sold a painting in the silent auction — and does not know to whom.
If you check out his Web site, Lauren has some incredibly witty portraits he’s imagined of superheroes. One of them shows a Batman-like guy squiring a Wonder Woman-type gal into hot-looking Batmobile-like vehicle. It’s called Page Six. Very funny!
But back to the “24 Hour Plays.” They’re produced each year to support a charity called Working Playground. Actors, writers and directors meet at a hotel and cook up half a dozen new plays on Sunday that they will produce on Monday night. Everyone starts from scratch. They use the existing set at the American Airlines Theater for the show currently playing — in this case, “The Girl on the Appian Way.”
Any one of the six plays we saw was funnier and better executed than most of the stuff we see on “Saturday Night Live.”
Warren Leight, award-winning author of “Sideman,” always contributes a play. Because he works on “Law and Order Criminal Intent,” his “In the Dark” cast included Kathryn Erbe.
Some of the other name actors in the various plays included, to varying effect, everyone from the sublime Kate Burton to the more theatrically-challenged Hayden Christensen.
The overall scene-stealer of the night was Rachel Dratch, who, coincidentally, is the saving grace at this point of “Saturday Night Live.”
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