Joan Rivers on Reviving SALLY MARR...And Her Escorts on Broadway

In an interview with THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER this week, Joan Rivers admits that at this point in her career, she hopes to come full circle.  In 1972, Rivers made her Broadway debut in the comedy Fun City.  She returned to the Great White Way in 1986 in Broadway Bound and then again in 1994 in Sally Marr...and her escorts in a role which garnered her a Tony nomination.  

When asked what she wants to do with the remainder of her career, Rivers revealed: "I know it sounds stupid but I want to go back to Broadway...I want to revive a thing called Sally Marr, which I did 15 years ago. I was nominated for a Tony, and I loved the show."

Born and raised in Brooklyn, JOAN RIVERS made the rounds in New York during the 1950s, appearing in a few off-off Broadway plays (including one where she played a lesbian opposite an equally unknown Barbra Streisand), surviving sleazy agents, tawdry clubs, and hostile audiences. A 1965 booking on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" led to her hosting one of the first syndicated talk shows on daytime TV, "That Show with Joan Rivers" in 1968. In the 1970s Joan wrote the TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To (starring Stockard Channing) and then wrote and directed her first feature film Rabbit Test, casting Billy Crystal in the lead. In 1983 Joan became the permanent guest host on "The Tonight Show." Later, she headlined in Las Vegas, sold out Carnegie Hall, produced a Grammy nominated comedy album, and wrote two best-selling books. In 1989 the Tribune Corporation launched Joan in her own syndicated daytime talk show. She won an Emmy and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994 she wrote and starred on Broadway in Sally Marr and Her Escorts, for which she received a Best Actress Tony nomination. Since then, Joan has written three more best-selling books, maintains her own jewelry line on QVC, provided fashion commentaries for E! and The TV Guide Channel, and filmed a special for Bravo. Currently, she has two books in stores (Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery and Murder at the Academy Awards). In 2009, she was the winner of Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" and served as host of the series "How'd You Get So Rich?" on TVLand. In 2010, she has returned to The Fashion Police show on E! as a red carpet fashion commentator, launched a second season of "How'd You Get So Rich?" and has been featured on the big screen in the acclaimed Sundance Award-winning documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.

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