SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN Returns to New York City Tonight

Sharon Tate in Heaven, presented by This American Blonde Actress™ and Mississippi Mud Productions, returns for a limited special New York City run today, August 8th-11th, followed by two special dates in Lido Beach, New York August 16th and 17th. As covered in The New York Times' Fashion & Style section in an article on Sharon's enduring style, the TV smash Mad Men, the new book "Sharon Tate: Recollection" by her sister, Debra, celebrating Sharon, the "new generation crushing on Sharon Tate" as evident with high school students on Twitter, virtual fan sites on Facebook and Tumblr, and this Sharon Tate in Heaven show are evidence of Sharon Tate's mythos and enduring appeal as style icon.

In this new wave of Sharon, Sharon Tate in Heaven, which first premiered in March, and now returns with some new inspiration, is a one woman odyssey about model and actress Sharon Tate. Sharon did some television work and made six films, including playing the doomed aspiring actress Jennifer North in Valley of the Dolls (1967), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer, and playing in films in the USA and internationally, including her last film, the comedy 12 +1 Chairs in 1969, with Orson Welles. By 1969, she was ascending into international stardom. By then she was also a wife and mother-to-be living her American Dream. She met director Roman Polanski in London in 1966 when she was hired to play the lead in his film The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), a "Disney" comedy take on vampires as she described it, fell madly in love, and married Roman, who described his years with her at a press conference in 1969 "as the the only time of true happiness in my life." On August 9, 1969, while pregnant with his child, a boy, she and four others were savagely killed by members of the Charles Manson "family" in LA when Manson, a frustrated musician who wanted to get revenge on the Establishment that rejected him, and with paranoid delusions about a Helter Skelter race war he wanted to start, set it in motion. At the home Sharon and Roman rented at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Sharon passed before being able to say goodbye to her husband or loved ones. In this one woman odyssey, written and performed by Jen Danby (The Blonde Bombshell Project: Marilyn Monroe, Nina inSeaGull69, an adaptation by Mississippi Mud of Chekhov's SeaGull set in LA in summer 1969, directed by Austin Pendleton), and inspired by research into books, pictures, interviews, films, virtual explorations, and more, Sharon Tate is interviewed in Heaven TV style to talk about her life, acting, and love, as a Valentine message to her husband. In this special revival this August, looking back at August 1969, we present this tale. At the juncture of an American Tragedy that is cultural memory, this is the story of the actress and woman Sharon Tate, born in Dallas, Texas, with an American Dream and International Appeal, and it is a Love Story. Tickets on sale now for Manhattan and Lido Beach performances at sharontateinheaven.brownpapertickets.com.

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