Two engagements have been announced for the national tour of James Kirkwood's claw-baring comedy Legends, featuring "Dynasty" co-stars Joan Collins and Linda Evans.
The show will play the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, MO from December 5th through 10th, 2006 and the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, AZ from January 30th through February 4, 2007, according to theatreleague.com. It was also previously announced that Legends will have a New York future after the tour wraps.The show "centers on two fading and somewhat desperate movie stars named Sylvia
(Collins) and Leatrice (Evans). Both actresses are courted by an
unscrupulous young producer to star together in a Broadway show,
despite the fact that they have hated each other for decades. He
convinces both ladies to go along by misleading them into believing
that they will be starring in the show with Paul Newman. This hilarious
set-up provides the background for the full-blown comic confrontation
between these two somewhat desperate and waning movie stars and the
surprising and hilarious resolution," state press notes.
Legends is famous to theatre fans for having been a showcase for Carol Channing and Mary Martin, and for serving as basis for Kirkwood's (A Chorus Line) book Diary of a Mad Playwright. The play was to have moved to Broadway after a 23-city tour, but the legendary Martin withdrew from the production after one of her character's speeches--about breast cancer--was cut.Collins appeared on Broadway in Private Lives. In addition to her role on the '80s primetime soap "Dynasty," she also acted in films such as The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, The Opposite Sex, and Esther and the King. She also appeared as Potiphar's wife in the filmed version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Evans' films and TV credits include "Dazzle," "The Love Boat," "The Rockford Files" and Beach Blanket Bingo.
