Four time Emmy winner Valerie Harper will be seated at Cat Greenleaf's front door in the popular WNBC TV feature "Talk Stoop" tomorrow Wed Mar 24 at 5:50 AM on Channel 4. Watch for the segment to start showing up on the screens in NYC cabs as well. Valerie and Cat cover the waterfront, discussing Harper's return to Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in the new Broadway comedy LOOPED, as well as her years on "Rhoda" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
Harper's performance has been heralded by the critics:"
Valerie Harper gives an enjoyably big, blustery performance, nailing very last laugh. She commands the stage handily and reveals precise comic timing. Even the estimable wisecracker
Joan Rivers might want to hustle down to the Lyceum Theatre to pick up a few pointers." - New York Times
"LOOPED is extremely funny thanks in large part of
Valerie Harper's pitch-perfect portrait of the seminal diva. Harper's witty, exuberant performance captures
Tallulah Bankhead's cartoonish flamboyance but also shows us the cunning resilience and genius for irony behind it!" - USA Today
"
Valerie Harper does a bravura turn in LOOPED." - Bloomberg.com
LOOPED, written by
Matthew Lombardo, tells the story of
Tallulah Bankhead, the internationally celebrated actress, being called into a sound studio in 1965 to re-record (or "loop") one line of dialogue for what would be her last film -- the dreadful "Die, Die My Darling." Southern, but by no means a belle, Ms. Bankhead was known for her wild partying and convention-defying exploits that surpassed even today's celebrity bad girls. Given her inebriated state and inability to loop the line properly, what ensues is an uproarious showdown between an uptight film editor and the outrageous legend.
Brian Hutchison and
Michael Mulheren complete the company. It is directed by
Rob Ruggiero.
www.LoopedonBroadway.comPhoto Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
