After a successful workshop/showcase during which the script was re-worked and re-written, producer Eric Krebs will open Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden Off-Broadway at the 45th Street Theatre (354 West 45th Street - between 8th and 9th Avenues).
Adapted and directed by Christopher Scott (
Golf: The Musical), the show will open on Valentine's Day, Wednesday, February 14th. It will run through Sunday, March 11th. Previews begin Friday, February 2nd.
My Secret Garden will star McKenzie Frye, Lyn Philistine and Mimi Quillin. Scenery is by Bernard Grenier, lighting is by Ben Hagen and costumes are by Michele Reisch.
"Best-selling author and international journalist Nancy Friday published her first book in 1973. It was entitled My Secret Garden and it caused explosive comment worldwide. The book, which compiled interviews of women discussing (in finite and graphic detail) their sexual fantasies became an immediate bestseller and target of the world's media," press notes state.
"Newspapers discussed the book's publication on their front pages. Network news broadcasts 'led' with their outraged tracking of the book's colossal sales. Talk show hosts went to war to 'get' Ms. Friday as a guest. And the many publishers that initially turned down the opportunity of publishing the book wept in silence as they watched the ensuing storm of attention blow away any focus on anyone else's literary offerings for months and months."
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Friday grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and was educated at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She worked briefly as a reporter for the
San Juan Island Times and subsequently established herself as a magazine journalist in New York, England, Italy and France before turning to writing full time and publishing her first book,
My Secret Garden, in 1973. Subsequent books followed on themes ranging from mothers and daughters sexual fantasies, relationships, jealousy, envy, feminism and beauty. Through the 80's and the early 90's she was a frequent guest on television and radio programs such as "Politically Incorrect," "Oprah," "Larry King Live," "Good Morning America" and NPR's "Talk of the Nation." Despite the judgment of
Ms. magazine ("This woman is not a feminist") she has predicated her career on the belief that feminism and appreciation of men are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Tickets are $50. For reservations, visit www.smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444.
