Andrea Martin (Tony Winner & SCTV) & Cady Huffman (Tony Winner Producers) added to New Years Cast of Celebrity Autobigraphy

 Appearing:
Rick Holmes (Star of Broadway's Spamalot)
Cady Huffman (Tony Winner for The Producers / Iron Chef America)
Kristen Johnston (3rd Rock from the Sun / Bride Wars)
Andrea Martin (SCTV/Two Time Tony-winner/My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Eugene Pack (Emmy nominee and Drama Desk winner)
Dayle Reyfel (Drama Desk Winner)
Christopher Sieber (Tony-nominee, Spamalot!, Shrek the Musical)
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Celebrity Autobiography is the international smash hit comedy where outrageous and true celebrity memoirs are acted out live on stage by the funniest performers on earth.
As seen on Bravo TV, audiences will enjoy a night of non-stop laughter as they experience the jaw-dropping vignettes performed from celebrity tell-alls: from the "he-said, she-said" accounts of Burt and Loni... how Tiger Woods strokes his putter....Mr. T's acting tips... the re-enactment of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's courtship, to the most famous love triangle in Hollywood history - Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
Running for three sold-out years in New York City, Celebrity Autobiography has been profiled in virtually every major media outlet including Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, NPR's All Things Considered and The View, and won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.
Audiences will leave the show asking "Did these celebrities really write that?" Yup--we are not making any of it up!
"THE FUNNIEST SHOW IN TOWN, HANDS DOWN, IS CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT THE TRIAD!" -- Michael Riedel -- The New York Post.
Premium Seating — includes 2 glasses of champagne - $150.00
Gen. Admission - includes 2 glasses of champagne - $100.00
Balcony - includes 1 glass of champagne - $75.00
Weeping with laughter - priceless.
(*Cash bar available all evening)
*** VIDEOS AND MORE INFO AVAILABLE ON THE SMARTTIX TICKET PAGE OR AT: www.celebrityautobiography.com

You've Got Hate Mail Reviews in New York Post - 3 out of 4 Stars

Reply 'See this' to all who e-mail

By FRANK SCHECK

Last Updated: 12:19 PM, December 15, 2010

Posted: 10:38 PM, December 14, 2010

"You've Got Hate Mail" is the perfect bedroom farce for an era in which there's more action online than in actual bedrooms.

Composed entirely of e-mails and text messages riotously enacted by a five-person ensemble, it may encourage you to keep your BlackBerry under lock and key. At least if you have anything to hide.

Hapless Richard (Billy Van Zandt, one of the playwrights), is cheating on wife Stephanie (co-playwright Jane Milmore) with sexy co-worker Wanda (Fran Solgan). After Richard accidentally sends his wife a self-incriminating e-mail, he frantically tries to cover it up. But his wife's best friend, Peg (Bonnie Deroski), long aware of Richard's indiscretions, sets her straight.

Watching the action gleefully is Richard's leering co-worker/best friend, George (Glenn Jones), whose chief online activity consists of sending out fake nude photos of Hillary Clinton.

Richard sheepishly agrees to couples therapy, a seething Wanda plots her revenge, and George and Peg discover a mutual attraction as the plot becomes ever more farcically complicated.

Anyone who's ever hit "reply all" by mistake will find much to relate to. Playwrights Van Zandt and Milmore wrest much comic mileage from the endless gaffes of electronic communication, such as George's endless e-mail malapropisms ("HMOG," he writes when shocked) and a lengthy riff involving the phrase "I can't tell you" that's like a 21st-century "Who's on First?" routine.

The comic momentum -- there's even a chase scene! -- never flags, even though all of the dialogue is spoken by performers seated in front of computers.

Expertly directed by Gary Shaffer, the piece is enlivened by some terrific performances, especially Van Zandt's sleazy, Jon Lovitz-like philanderer and Jones' wacky, electronically clueless cohort. Look for this limited-run show to return in March.

Gay City News - Triad Shows win 2 of the 10 Best Live Performances of the Year

Two shows at Triad this year, Kate Dawson's The Asshole in My Head and Jon Peterson's Song Man, Dance Man won best of the year awards from Gay City News.    These shows were in good company as some of the other winners were big Broadway shows such as Hair and West Side Story.      Some quotes from the article below:

Kate Dawson’s “The Asshole in My Head” at the Triad: The Triad scored again, performer-wise, with Dawson’s bracingly fresh reinvention of cabaret, taking every performer’s worst enemy, namely herself, and making her into a hilariously obnoxious, though unseen, other character onstage. It was deliciously absurd, as well as tellingly real, and offered the funniest line of the year: “Oh God, not another ballad!” Dawson’s gorgeous voice didn’t hurt, either. With her lovely looks and screwball take, she was like a cabaret version of Carole Lombard.



Jon Peterson’s “Song Man, Dance Man” at The Triad: There was no better dancing to be seen all year than this spirited, moving tribute to Peterson’s idols: Astaire, George M. Cohan, Gene Kelly, Anthony Newley, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Peterson transformed the Triad’s tiny stage into Radio City with his dazzling versatility and infectious love of performing.


Complete Article at the link below:
http://gaycitynews.com/articles/2009/12/25/gay_city_news/features/doc4b32ff3edfcb7714704931.txt

Photos of Sherri Shepherd, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Wiig in Celebrity Autobiography at Triad Nov. 23rd Show

It was a great night for stars and comedy at the Nov. 23rd Celebrity Autobiography shows.         Ryan Reynolds and Kristen Wiig (SNL) joined regular cast members Sherri Sherpherd (The View) Carol Kane (Academy Award Nominee) Steve Schirripa (Sopranos) Rachel Dratch (SNL) Scott Adsit (30 Rock) etc.    Two sold out shows in a row and two of the best audiences made for a great evening.

Blake Lively attended to see some of her friends in the cast.      

From NY Times - Ryan Reynolds to appear in Celebrity Autobiography at Triad

November 15, 2009, 6:45 PM

Ryan Reynolds to Read From the Book of Loggins

By PATRICK HEALY

The heartthrob actor Ryan Reynolds (”The Proposal,” “Definitely, Maybe”) will make his debut next week in the New York edition of the theatrical comedy “Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words,” where stars read humorous snippets from memoirs of the entertainment world’s A-list through D-list.

Given Mr. Reynolds’s popularity in movies and on “Sexiest Man Alive” lists, a second show has been added for the Nov. 23 production at the Triad Theater on the Upper West Side; performances will be at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Mr. Reynolds is scheduled to read from Kenny Loggins’s “The Unimaginable Life: Lessons Learned on the Path of Love.” Other performers that night include Rachel Dratch, Carol Kane, Sherri Shepherd, Michael Urie andKristen Wiig.

Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Mark Karan and Ratdog perform Historic Live Show at Triad

Billed as Mark Karan and friends but really the entire band Ratdog (which is Bob Weir's band after the Grateful Dead) made a historic appearance for a post Beacon Theater show at Triad on Friday October 23rd. The show started at 1am as the band had to load in some large cabinets and equipment from the Beacon Theater. It was an amazing night of music that did not end until 4am. The entire band Ratdog performed with Mark. Bob Weir played on Wang Dang Doodle and Smokestack Lightning. Truly a magical night of music.

From RELIX Magazine:

Late Friday night, the members of RatDog also played a surprise show at New York’s 150-person club Triad after their Beacon gig. The show was originally billed as Mark Karan and Friends and the RatDog guitarist opened the night with a version of “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.” Weir, RatDog saxophonist Kenny Brooks, RatDog drummer Jay Lane, RatDog bassist Robin Sylvester, Citizen Cope keyboardist John Ginty, keyboardist Dred Scott and saxophonists Doug Yates and George Garzone all emerged for the song and remained onstage for “ Wang Dang Doodle,” “Smokestack Lightnin‘” and “Spoonful.” Though Weir left the stage, the collaborations continued late into the night. At one point singer Emory Joseph—who also recently released an album of Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter covers—emerged for a take on “What Did I Do Wrong” and the night climaxed with “Sugaree” and “And We Bid You Goodnight.”

New York Times Review of Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter at Triad

By DANIEL M. GOLD

Published: November 4, 2009

Forty-five years after his death, Cole Porter has never truly left town. His songs are a staple of Manhattan’s cabaret scene: one performer finished a tribute at the Algonquin last month, while two others just opened shows that prominently feature his work.

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Stevie Holland in her one-woman musical show, "Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter."

None are as ambitious as Stevie Holland, a jazz singer who has tried to steer into somewhat more daring precincts. Apparently drawing on sources like William McBrien’s fine Porter biography and the 2004 film “De-Lovely,” Ms. Holland and her husband, the composer Gary William Friedman, have written “Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter.”

It’s billed as a one-woman play, directed by Ben West. Really, though, it’s cabaret. Ms. Holland takes the nightclub stage of the Triad Theater as Linda Lee Porter, the dazzling divorced socialite from Kentucky who wed Porter, eight years her junior, in 1919 when both were expatriates in Paris. Despite her husband’s homosexuality — Ms. Holland has Linda saying she “accepted his romantic appetite for men because I had his love” — the couple stayed married for 35 years, until Linda’s death from emphysema in 1954.

With a trio playing smoothly behind her, Ms. Holland runs through truncated versions of some of Porter’s best-known songs — “In the Still of the Night,” “I Love Paris,” “What Is This Thing Called Love?” — as well as a handful of comparative rarities. Instead of conventional patter, she ladles out bits of the Porter chronology in a Southern-tinged lilt.

There’s a lot of ground to cover, even for a more polished actress than Ms. Holland: the couple’s time in Europe; the return to the States and Porter’s first great Broadway successes; the move to Hollywood; the horse-riding accident that disabled him; Linda’s failing health. As a result, the piece, which clocks in at just about an hour, feels rushed. Not only does it make great demands of Ms. Holland, who between her singing and narration barely has time to pause, but it also shortchanges the audience, which for the most part gets only bits and pieces of songs that cry out for full, lustrous renditions.

This is a shame because Ms. Holland, tall and stately, has a graceful, silken voice that glides easily through her material. “Love for Sale,” which she sang after discussing the Porters’ growing estrangement in Hollywood, carried emotional weight, and she gave the closing number, “When a Woman’s in Love,” a real sense of triumph.

“Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter” runs through Nov. 21 at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72nd Street, Manhattan; (212) 352-3101, lovelindathemusical.com.

Sherri Shepherd (The View) will be in Celebrity Autobiography Sept. 14th @ 7:30pm

Congrats to Sherri Shepherd for winning an Emmy award. The picture above is from The View and pictured with Sheri are the other co-hosts from The View along with the Triad's Celebrity Autobiography show team. A few months ago The View featured Celebrity Autobiography

on one of their episodes. Sherri is absolutely hysterical in Celebrity Autobiography and there are a few seats left for the Sept. 14th show at smarttix.com Additional cast members include

Michael Urie of Ugly Betty, Kristen Johnston of 3rd Rock fame & Craig Bierko.

Brenda Braxton (Tony Nominee Smokey Joe's Cafe) to appear this Monday in Erotic Broadway

Brenda Braxton, whose powerhouse performance in Smokey Joe’s Cafe earned her a 1995 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and recently seen Starring in CHICAGO on Broadway joins the cast of this stimulating and irreverent, adult’s-only variety series, showcasing Broadway’s brightest talent.

The hottest and most exciting talent on Broadway will offer their own unique interpretation of the genre featuring an erotically-charged evening of dance, slinky love songs, risqué stand-up comedy, steamy story telling…and well, who knows what else?

The August 10th performance will also feature Tony Nominee John Selya (Movin’ Out, Guys & Dolls), Tonya Wathen (Chicago), Ioana Alfonso (9 to 5), Joe Ricci (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change), Michelle Pruiett (The Little Mermaid), and many more of Broadway’s hottest performers.

Tricia Brouk and James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) at Triad attending Erotic Broadway

FOREVER PLAID Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary (Triad is the original home of Forever Plaid)

The Triad Theater (then called Steve McGraws) is where Forever Plaid made it's debut and played for over 5 years. Since then the show has become perhaps the most successful show in Off-Broadway History grossing over 300 million dollars worldwide. All of this came about from a small little show at our 130 seat theater.

On Thursday July 9th a live broadcast and filmed event of the show was broadcast into 375 theaters and featured 3 members of the original cast. Below is some information aboutthe show & live filmed broadcast from Forever Plaid's website:

Amassing loyal followers around the world, the Plaid fan base has been constantly growing for nearly twenty years. All these fans have now become part of the "Frequent Plaid" program. 'Plaid Heads' (a term coined by Jay Leno) have seen the show upwards of 700 times! 'Plaid Head' celebrities include Joanne Woodward, Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli, Garry Marshall, Jason Alexander, Elaine Stritch, Rosie O'Donnell, Tommy Hilfiger, Bette Midler, Joan Baez and Robert Reich. The film features cameos by Fred Willard, Loni Anderson, Rose Marie, Kate Linder, and Melissa Manchester.
―FOREVER PLAID‖ has played the East Room of the White House (under the first Bush administration), and The Plaids have also sung for President Clinton at both his Democratic Conventions. In London ―FOREVER PLAID‖ gave a command performance for HRH Queen Elizabeth. In Japan, the show was sponsored by the government and was honored with performances for Japanese dignitaries. The show has played non-stop, worldwide for nearly twenty years.

Broadway World Photo Coverage of Erotic Broadway's Debut at Triad June 29th 2009

Adam Shorsten, Anthony Francavilla, Michelle Mantione, and The Imagination Company presented EROTIC BROADWAY at The Triad on Monday June 29th. EROTIC BROADWAY is New York City's sexiest, new late-night Monday series. BroadwayWorld.com made the late night trip to the Triad to cover all the seductive action.

Two of Broadways hottest talents, Nick Adams and Kearran Giovanni guest starred in the June 29th performance which was choreographed by Broadway's hottest dance talent, Lorin Latarro.

Press notes describe EROTIC BROADWAY as, "this stimulating and irreverent adults-only variety show series, showcasing Broadway's brightest talent, will feature an erotically-charged evening of dance, slinky love songs, risqué stand-up comedy, steamy story telling and...well, who knows what else? Featuring a new cast and creative team at each performance, the hottest and most exciting talent on Broadway will offer their own unique and different interpretation of the genre."

Future performance dates are July 20th, August 10th, August 24th, October 5th & October 19th at 9:30pm. Cast and creative teams to be announced.

The Triad is located at 158 West 72nd Street, NY, NY. www.triadnyc.com Tickets are $50, $35 & $30 each plus a 2 beverage minimum. Tickets on sale now for all performances at www.smarttix.com.

"The Real Billy Elliot" by Rex Reed New York Observer May 19th, 2009

Jon Peterson: Song Man Dance Man
The Triad, 158 West 72 Street

With youth, one expects energy and exuberance, but good looks, intelligence and talent are rarely found in the same package. Jon Peterson, an enchanting new performer from England who has “adopted” the Apple as his own, has got it all. In Song Man Dance Man, an entertaining nonstop revue at the beautifully refurbished cabaret theater called the Triad, Mr. Peterson is paying homage to the historic song-and-dance icons George M. Cohan, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bobby Darin and Anthony Newley. A combination of Tommy Steele and Norman Wisdom, he was a veteran of the Royal Ballet School at 9 years old. But Swan Lake didn’t hold a candle to MGM musicals, and Mr. Peterson never had any doubt what he wanted to be when he grew up. He is, in many ways, the real Billy Elliot.

Unfortunately, by the time he was handsome and supple enough to become the new Bob Fosse, movie musicals were over. That hasn’t stopped him from emulating his heroes. From a vaudeville trunk he extracts top hats, canes, baseball caps and props to create his own version of That’s Entertainment! His Bobby Darin needs work, but the athletic cockiness of Gene Kelly shines through, tough but tender on “For Me and My Gal” and wet dancing with an umbrella on “Singin’ in the Rain.” He doesn’t imitate the cockney of fellow Londoner Anthony Newley. He channels him, until his “Once in a Lifetime” sends chills down your spine. His biographical patter is revealing, his personal revelations are endearing and his tap-dancing is aces high. With flipper shoes, baggy pants, white gloves protruding from a long purple coat, orange shirt and polka dot tie, he kneels in front of a mirror applying clown makeup and emerges as Kelly singing Cole Porter’s “Be a Clown” in The Pirate, then keeps the makeup on for “What Kind of Fool Am I?” which displays the serious, lonely side of a clown and builds to a perfect finale.

Out of character, his floppy hair refuses to stay in place, and his smile is as warm as Palm Springs in December. With Hermes Pan to do the choreography, Conrad Salinger to write the arrangements and Ira Gershwin to pen the lyrics, Jon Peterson could have been a big star. Even in the creatively bankrupt show business world of today, he vibrates with talent and charisma, and in the right vehicle he could own the stage. 

rreed@observer.com

From the INSIDER.com - Schirripa And Richards On Mulberry Street

We had the pleasure of catching up yesterday with our pal Steve Schirripa and his good friend Sal Richards at Il Cortile in Little Italy yesterday. Steve, who rose to international notoriety for his role as Bobby ‘Bacala’ Baccalieri on HBO’s The Sopranos, was with entertainer Sal Richards shooting a commercial for an upcoming appearance at the Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren, Michigan. Steve was en route after his shoot to The Triad to participate in their Drama Desk Winning show, Celebrity Autobiography. Richards, who’ll be appearing at The Triad Theatre in July and August, has his own documentary coming out later this summer entitled ‘Mr. Laughs: A Look behind The Curtain.’ The movie is narrated by Vincent D’Onofrio, from ‘Law And Order: Criminal Intent’, and features his rather dramatic life story … which is very definitely to be continued. The movie which we here at Times Square Gossip got an advance look at, features testimonials from the likes of Sid Ceasar; Don Rickles; Jackie Mason; Jerry Stiller; Soupy Sales; The View’s Joy Behar; Norm Crosby; Lanie Kazan; and Julius LaRosa, among others. It is a lovingly rendered work … sure to be a favorite. The film was directed by Gregory Principato. Richards’ show, ‘The Way It Was’ will be at The Traid theatre on West 72nd street on July 22 and 29, and August 6 and 13.

Celebrity Autobiography at Triad Wins Drama Desk for Best Unique Theatrical Experience

The next Scheduled Performance is Monday, June 22 at 7:30pm

Scheduled to appear are:

Rachel Dratch, Jackie Hoffman, Kristen Johnston (3rd Rock) Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Steve Schirripa (Sopranos), Sherri Shepherd (The View), Alan Zweibel, and more!

Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) from the Sopranos attends fellow Soprano Tony Darrow's show last night

Another great show last night by Tony Darrow (Sopranos, Goodfellas and many Woody Allen Films).

Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts) fellow Sopranos was in attendance.    Three more shows remain on Thursday

nights at 9pm.    Remaining tickets are available on Smarttix.com.   

Drama Desk Nomination for Celebrity Autobiography at Triad

Celebrity Autobiography was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.    A new show for Mother's Day was scheduled for Sunday May 10th at 7pm.       Bring your Mother for free.    For tickets visit www.smarttix.com and put in code MD25 or call 212-868-4444.

Judith Light, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie & Bernadette Peters at Triad for Celebrity Autobiography (March 30th)

From Time Square Gossip - Former NY Knick John Starks & Jaid Barrymore attend Tony Darrow's Sold Out One Man Show

Actor TONY DARROW's one-man show at New York's Triad had its second performance last night (with GIANNI RUSSO -Carlo from The Godfather-; JAID BARRYMORE -Drew's mom-; KEITH GIRARD from The Improper, NBA-great JOHN STARKS in the sold-out audience; and, guest host GOUMBA JOHNNY SIALIANO from WKTU), and he killed once again! The actor, perhaps best-known as 'Sonny Bunz' from GOOD FELLAS, first made his mark as a stand-up comedian, with stints in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, opening up for names like Buddy Hackett. Then one day, out of the blue, his agent called to say he had set up a meeting with MARTY SCORSESE. He met Marty and decided to do some shtick from his act. The director loved it, and commented, “That’s exactly what I want.” He got the gig and worked alongside the stellar cast of that movie, including ROBERT DeNIRO; JOE PESCI; RAY LIOTTA; and, PAUL SORVINO. Pesci’s character at one point starts whacking Darrow’s character with a wine bottle. Needless to say … the die was cast. 5 movies with WOODY ALLEN followed, as well as the movie SEARCHING FOR BOBBY D and ANALYZE THIS. He also essayed the role of ‘Larry Boy Barese’ in HBO’s The Sopranos. Allen’s office called this week and said the Wood-man himself might be down at future show. Darrow likes to say, that both ALLEN and SCORSESE discovered him … not bad! He also appeared in MICKEY BLUE EYES with HUGH GRANT and JAMES CAAN, and several LAW & ORDER episodes. His show is an observational one, with ribald comments about some of the personalities he’s come up against and much interaction with the audience, and the audience last night was ready to interact! especially the group sitting right in front of us! We sat half-way back with the show's PR-mouthpiece, The Pasha, David Salidor. Funny stuff for sure ... conjuring up the best vaudeville moments ever. The guy knows his stuff. A video montage of his career opens the laugh-filled show and reminds the audience of his many memorable moments onscreen ... small and large. His show runs through May 21st (GoodFella Thursdays) and should not be missed. The show is produced by Paul Borghese, who most recently produced the stellar LAMPOST REUNION, with FRANK (RAO’s) PELLIGRINO. Not every actor can carry a one-man show with this much style and grace … at the top of our list … TONY DARROW!

Notable Personalities Attending Shows at Triad this Month

Rene Zelwegger, Frank Langella, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Vanessa Williams & Ben Vereen attended shows at Triad this March.