Irish Rep Cherry Sisters Revisited Reading Stars D'Abruzzo

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) is hosting the"New Works Readings Series" of free monthly staged readings.

The ninth reading will be The Cherry Sisters Revisited by Dan O'Brien on Friday, September 29 at 3 PM.  It will feature Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q, I Love You Because).

Dan O'Brien's The Cherry Sisters Revisited is "based on true story of Addie, Effie, Lizzie, Ella, and Jessie Cherry, five sisters from Marion, Iowa, who took the vaudeville world by storm with the collective awfulness of their talent," according to press notes. Unfunny, ungraceful, and tone-deaf, they nonetheless (or because of it) rose to the height of their profession, playing to capacity on Broadway, ostensibly without ever knowing that their fame was a kind of trick played on them -- the audience was laughing at them, not with them."

The play "re-imagines this history as a nightmarish fable of ambition and entertainment, seeking to answer the question: Were the Cherry Sisters victims, or the architects of their exploitation?"

The show will also feature Marc Blum (The Music Teacher, Twelve Angry Men),  Katie Firth (Susan and God, Humble Boy), Emily Cass McDonnell (Indoor/Outdoor, Aunt Dan and Lemon),  Paula McGonagle (Innocents, Betrothed) and Amy Redford (Bhutan, The Golden Ladder).

Dan O'Brien has been awarded The Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University
for 2006/7. His play The Voyage of the Carcass will have its off-Broadway
premiere in October at SoHo Playhouse starring Tony-award winning actor Dan Fogler.

Additional readings are scheduled for Friday, October 27; Friday, November
17; and, Friday, December 15.  All readings are at 3 PM and are located at The
Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street). * Courtesy of AEA.

Tickets are free and the reading is open to the public.  Seating is limited.
RSVP by calling The Irish Repertory Theatre Box Office at (212) 727-2737.
For more information visit www.irishrep.org.