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.
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall (3/15 - 3/15) | ||
Avenue Q
Wisteria Theater (1/24 - 3/2)
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Kelli O'Hara in Concert
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (2/1 - 2/1) | ||
Wish You Were Here
South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage (1/12 - 2/2) | ||
RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR
South Coast Repertory (2/19 - 3/2) | ||
Laurie Sefton Creates at LA Dance Project
LA Dance Project (2/20 - 2/22) LOS ANGELES PREMIERE | ||
Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/30 - 2/2) | ||
Celebrating MTT
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/1 - 2/1) | ||
Tchaikovsky & The Mermaid
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/7 - 2/9) | ||
Pasadena Symphony: Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 Turkish
Ambassador Auditorium (3/22 - 3/22) | ||
Insidious: The Further You Fear
Dolby Theatre (4/30 - 5/1) | ||
Pasadena Symphony: Beethoven “Pastoral” Symphony
Pasadena Symphony (5/3 - 5/3) | ||
Hamlet
Mark Taper Forum (5/28 - 7/6) | ||
Some Like It Hot
Pantages Theatre (7/29 - 8/17) | ||
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