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For nearly a decade Gretchen Cryer (Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner and Grammy nominee) has imagined a group of solo performers coming together under one roof to tell their funny, sad, sexy, shocking, and most importantly TRUE STORIES.
Her dream has come to fruition at the gorgeous, historic Cherry Lane Theatre - a treasure in Greenwich Village.
These are stories told with heart, humor, and the searing honesty that can only happen
when your past catches up with you and all that is left is the truth.
Her dream has come to fruition at the gorgeous, historic Cherry Lane Theatre - a treasure in Greenwich Village.
These are stories told with heart, humor, and the searing honesty that can only happen
when your past catches up with you and all that is left is the truth.
So That Happened
written and performed by Jon Cryer
Jon Cryer has worked with some of the biggest and most provocative names in show business: Charlie Sheen, John Hughes, Robert Altman, Demi Moore, and Christopher Reeve. In “So That Happened” he shares the intimate details of his friendships and relationships, pays tribute to his mentors and explores the peculiar combination of heart, talent, and wisdom it takes to survive not just the bad times in a notoriously fickle industry but even the good times.
So That Happened
written and performed by Jon Cryer
Jon Cryer has worked with some of the biggest and most provocative names in show business: Charlie Sheen, John Hughes, Robert Altman, Demi Moore, and Christopher Reeve. In “So That Happened” he shares the intimate details of his friendships and relationships, pays tribute to his mentors and explores the peculiar combination of heart, talent, and wisdom it takes to survive not just the bad times in a notoriously fickle industry but even the good times.
Perfect Love
written and performed by Linda Manning
Linda Manning speaks out about her past, growing up surrounded by predatory, abusive men and how she created a fantasy of perfect love in order to survive. She chronicles her journey from a rootless girl to a reckless woman on the hunt for perfect love with every sexy, dangerous man she meets. Why does it take decades for her to finally tell the truth about what happened? Empowering, darkly funny, and poignant, this is the story of the havoc that fantasy wreaks on her life as she struggles to let the past go and set herself free.
I Was a Hot Monk
written and performed by Brian Sheridan
I WAS A HOT MONK is Brian Sheridan's journey into monasticism. Maybe there's a reason this actor suddenly finds himself with no career, no wife, no kids, no girlfriend, no friend-friends, no pets and no debts...because God wants him to become a monk! It's a trip to hell and back.
A Good Girl Doesn't
written and performed by Abby Stokes
Abby’s birth is the result of her parents swinging through the 1960s with wild key parties, martinis, and Manhattans. Their frolics leave Abby with one burning question: Who is her biological father? Too many possibilities for Mom to be certain. Dad deflects the subject with biting humor. Can a DNA paternity test provide the answer?
Escape from Daddyland
written and performed by Steve Wruble
Brought up in the deep South as an Orthodox Jew, son of a famous doctor - Elvis Presley‘s proctologist - Steve Wruble, is expected to follow his father into the bowels of the rich and famous. Instead, Steve becomes a psychiatrist, divorces his wife and religion, and begins a hilarious and compelling journey into unchartered waters. Steve’s musical odyssey takes us from an S&M weekend retreat in the hills of Maryland to Germany, where he hopes to finally make his father proud by killing it on the comedy stages of Berlin.
GRETCHEN CRYER (Director) is most well-known for writing the book and lyrics and starring in I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road (with music by Nancy Ford), which won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Musical, Best Actress, and a Grammy nomination for the album. Gretchen has written numerous other shows with Nancy Ford: Now Is the Time for All Good Men (Lortel Theatre), The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (Obie Award –Best Musical, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Shelter (Golden Theatre), Hang On to the Good Times (Manhattan Theatre Club), Eleanor (Williamstown), The American Girls Revue (American Girl Place – Chicago, New York, Los Angeles), Circle of Friends (American Girl Place – Chicago and New York,) and Anne of Green Gables (Theaterworks USA). Cryer and Ford’s new musical, Still Getting My Act Together, premiered at the Laguna Playhouse in 2015. Gretchen has also won acclaim for her course, “Creating Your Own Solo Performance.” She has directed and developed dozens of solo performance pieces that have evolved into fully realized works, seen on stages throughout New York City. Gretchen is on the Dramatists Guild Council and is President Emeritus of the Dramatists Guild Fund. GretchenCryer.com
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