BWW Previews: A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD at THE WICK THEATRE
By: John Lariviere Aug. 10, 2017
The Wick Theatre Presents A Conversation with Edith Head
A Special Event Featuring Award-Winning Actress Susan Claassen
The Wick Theatre is proud to present A Conversation with Edith Head, An Evening of Wit, Wisdom and a Whisper of Gossip. Actress Susan Claassen stars in this internationally acclaimed portrayal of legendary costume designer, Edith Head. Based on Edith Head's Hollywood by Edith Head & Paddy Calistro, this play was written by Claassen and Calistro. The production is a feast of delicious behind-the-scenes stories about Hollywood's greatest stars which provide an intimate portrait of Hollywood's legendary costume designer. The interactive segments of the show are hosted by Stuart Moulton.
In her six decades of costume design, Edith Head worked on over eleven hundred films; dressed the greatest stars of Hollywood; received 35 Academy award nominations, and won an unprecedented eight Oscars. Edith Head's story is as fascinating as the history of the film industry itself, filled with humor, frustration and, above all, glamour. This diva of design helped to define glamour in the most glamorous place in the world - Hollywood!
Undoubtedly Hollywood's most famous costume designer, or "magician" as she liked to call herself, Head's career spanned fifty-eight years of movie making. In those years, she dressed almost every major star in the industry and, with her straight-cut bangs, dark glasses and tailored suits as her trademarks, became more famous than most of them. Her eight Academy awards include The Heiress (1950), Samson & Delilah (1951), A Place in the Sun (1952), Roman Holiday (1954), Sabrina (1955), The Facts of Life (1961), The Sting (1974), and her final project Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1981).
Head is La Stage Alliance Nominated Actress and New Times Best Actress Winner, Susan Claassen. Celebrating her 42nd anniversary as The Managing Artistic Director of The Invisible Theatre, she was nominated for the 2011 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and Broadway World LA Award and won the Phoenix New Times award for her portrayal of Edith Head. She was most recently seen as Olive in Its Olive and the Bitter Herbs and won the 2014 MAX Award for Best Actress in a comedy. She was selected as one of Arizona's "48 Most Intriguing Women", is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and has been a clown in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade since 2001. Classen is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.
Dates, Prices and Details:
September 15, 2017
6:30 Reception
7:30 Performance with Talk-Back
$95.00
September 16, 2017
12:00 p.m.
Museum Tour of the new collection, BLING followed by a 3-course luncheon, Performance with Talk-Back
$145.00
September 16, 2017
2:00 p.m. Show Only with Talk-Back
$85.00
The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum
7901 North Federal Highway
Boca Raton, Florida 33487
561-995-2333
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