Following last summers sold out run at The Edye, writer/performer Barra Grant is back with her darkly hilarious mother-daughter story: the true, inside tale of Grants seismic relationship with her mother, Bess Myerson. A beauty queen best known as the first and only Jewish Miss America, Myerson was an accomplished pianist, television personality, New York Citys first Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, a close advisor to Mayor Ed Koch, and a national spokesperson against anti-Semitism. Then, she infamously went down in flames with her Mafia boyfriend! in a judge-bribing scandal known as the Bess Mess. If you missed Grants fascinating tale about being a confused ugly duckling growing up in the shadow of her spectacular mother, heres your chance. Feb. 2 March 24; Saturdays @ 8 p.m.; Sundays @ 6 p.m.; Mondays @ 8 p.m.; Greenway Court Theatre, 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036; free parking; Every Monday is Mother-Daughter Monday: mothers and daughters can buy-one-get-one-free; (323) 285-2078; MissAmericasUglyDaughter.com.
Videos
RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR
South Coast Repertory (2/19 - 3/2) | ||
Wish You Were Here
South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage (1/12 - 2/2) | ||
FARM HALL by Katherine Moar
Promenade Playhouse (1/10 - 1/26) NEW PLAY | ||
Cody Fry with Orchestra
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/10 - 1/10) | ||
Batiashvili Plays Beethoven
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/3 - 1/5) | ||
Chamber Music from Armenia to Denmark
Walt Disney Concert Hall (4/22 - 4/22) | ||
Rachmaninoff & Muhly
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/24 - 1/26) | ||
Seong-Jin Cho
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/11 - 2/11) | ||
Tutti Frutti The Musical Tribute of Little Richard
Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge (3/21 - 3/22) | ||
The String Quartets of Philip Glass - Brooklyn Rider
Bram Goldsmith Theater at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (1/17 - 1/17) | ||
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