New York : Nicole Parker is set to rejoin the Broadway production of Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me on December 26th for its final two weeks. She left the production in early October to film Fox's televison show Mad TV . Donna Vivino has been playing the role.
Also starring in the production is Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, and Capathia Jenkins.
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me is set to close at the Bernard B. Jacobs theater on January 7, 2007. The production will have played 165 performances. After that it will embark on a 35-week national tour. Dates and cities have yet to be announced.
Fame Becomes Me begins with Short and company singing the exuberant "Party with Marty," launching what he intends to be a celebration of his fabulous, perfect life. Very quickly, it becomes clear the audience—addicted to Oprah and Behind the Music — expects scandal and angst from their star. Lacking any in his own life, Short frantically modifies his life story as he and the cast tell it, adding the requisite struggle, pain and psychobabble to fabricate an increasingly hilarious alternative autobiography.
Originally named, Martin Short: If I'd Saved, I Wouldn't Be Here , the production features music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, book by Martin Short and Daniel Goldfarb, and direction by Wittman. The creative team includes choreography by Christopher Gatelli, set design by Scott Pask, and costume design by Jess Goldstein.
For tickets to the final performances of Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me visit tickets.monstersandcritics.com .
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