Martin Short Talks Characters and Comedy To CBC News

Stage and screen favorite Martin Short talks comedy, characters and career to CBC News. Short is heading to an engagement this upcoming weekend at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal.

Martin Short won the Tony Award in 1999 for his performance in the musical revival of Little Me and returned to Broadway in 2006 with Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. To read the feature click here.

Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) on Thursday, August 17, 2006; previews started Saturday, July 29th, 2006.

Conceived by Short and Scott Wittman, Fame Becomes Me featured a book by Short and Daniel Goldfarb (Modern Orthodox) and music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Wittman and Shaiman (Hairspray). Directed by Wittman, the show previously played Toronto's Canon Theatre and Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre.

"Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me features Short in a tour de force guiding us through an improbable version of his life story. Backed by a brilliant cast of top Broadway performers (who constantly steal focus from Mr. Short when he's not looking), Short's transparent play for love and attention asks the burning question, does an autobiography really have to be true?," stated press notes.

The show also featured Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins and Nicole Parker playing a wide variety of different characters, both real and imagined, who figured into Short's parallel reality.

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