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Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me closes today

By Amy Somensky Jan 7, 2007, 1:47 GMT

New York: Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me plays its final performance today at the Bernard B. Jacobs theater. The production will have played 165 performances. Producers have announced that a 35-week national tour will launch in 2007. Dates and cities will be announced soon.

The cast at time of the closing includes Martin Short, Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins, and Nicole Parker. 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.

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