Carrie Fisher stays around while Kevin Kling opens new show at Rep

April 14, 8:57 PMSeattle Theater ExaminerRosemary Jones

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Carrie Fisher tells all in Wishful Drinking.
Photo Copyright Kevin Berne

Seattle adores Carrie.  At least enough for the Rep to extend the current run of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking until May 9.  The added performance dates are  are Tuesday, May 5, 7:30 pm; Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 pm; Thursday, May 7, 7:30 pm; Friday, May 8, 7:30 pm; and Saturday, May 9, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm.

The show has become a great cash cow (and we're talking dollars not performers here) for the Rep. The show has broken box office records previously set by another one-woman show, Lily Tomlin's Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in 2000. Obviously, our friends at the Rep need to keep looking for funny ladies with a a space connection or ladies who are slightly spacy whenever they need to replenish those coffers!

[May update:  Fisher's show is heading to Broadway, where it will open in September at the Roundabout Theatre Company].

Kling returns to Seattle

Keeping with "we love the monologue" theme, Seattle Rep's other show features NPR-contributor Kevin Kling with singer/accordionist Simone Perrin in Breakin' Hearts & Takin' Names.

The Minnesota native Kling returns to the Seattle after previously appearing here in How? How? Why? Why? Why? and Home and Away at the Rep and his earlier Fear and Loving in Minneapolis at ACT. Other Seattle theater credits include his versions of  Richard Scarry’s Busytown and Lily's Purple Plastic Purse  at Seattle Children’s Theatre.

The two-person Breakin' Hearts & Takin' Names can be found at the other end of the lobby from Wishful Drinking in Seattle Rep’s smaller Leo K. Theatre. Previews have been running for a week but the official opening night is tomorrow (April 15).

Tickets for both shows are available through the Seattle Repertory Theatre box office seven days a week at (206) 443-2222, toll-free at (877) 900-9285, as well as online at www.seattlerep.org.

Kevin Kling and Simone Perrin in Breakin' Hearts & Takin' Names written and performed by Kling and Perrin, directed by Braden Abraham. Playing in the Leo K. Theatre now through May 10, 2009.

Photo left copyright Chris Bennion 2009.