Fuller, Lawrence Join Cast Of LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE At Westside Theatre

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Penny Fuller, ShaRon Lawrence, Diane Neal, Sherri Shepherd, Cobie Smulders and Myra Lucretia Taylor will join upcoming summertime casts of Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's smash hit show Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

Emmy Award-winner Penny Fuller ("The Elephant Man"), Diane Neal ("Law & Order: SVU"), Daytime Emmy Award-winner Sherri Shepherd ("The View") and Cobie Smulders ("How I Met Your Mother") will be part of the cast beginning Wednesday, May 26 and performing through Sunday, June 27. ShaRon Lawrence ("NYPD Blue") and Myra Lucretia Taylor (Broadway's Nine) will be part of the July cast (Wednesday, June 30 through Sunday, July 25). Tickets for the show are now on-sale through August 29, 2010 and additional casting will be announced shortly.

Love, Loss, and What I Wore opened in October 2009 and has been playing to sold-out houses at The Westside Theatre (407 W 43rd Street). Directed by Karen Carpenter, this collection of stories is based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons' friends. Like the popular book, Love, Loss, and What I Wore uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tell funny and often poignant stories that all women can relate to. The production is performed by a rotating cast of five all-star actors, who perform in four-week cycles.

The show's current cast, featuring Anna Chlumsky (My Girl), Julie Halston (Gypsy), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Freedomland), Doris Roberts ("Everybody Loves Raymond") and Brooke Shields ("Lipstick Jungle"), began performances on Wednesday, April 28 (through Sunday, May 23).

The performance schedule for Love, Loss, and What I Wore is as follows: Tuesday at 7 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

Tickets ($75.00) are available via Telecharge.com (212-239-6200) and in-person at The Westside Theatre Box Office (407 West 43rd Street). Same-day general rush tickets ($25.00, cash only) are available at The Westside Theatre box office, beginning at noon. (Limited to two rush tickets per person. Seats are based on availability; some are limited view.)

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Penny Fuller received a Tony nomination for Neil Simon's The Dinner Party. Recent NY theatre: at Primary Stages and on Broadway: Dividing The Estate, Southern Comforts; Manhattan Theatre Club: Five by Tenn, New England, Three Viewings (Drama Desk nomination); at Lincoln Center: Dividing The Estate, A New Brain (Drama Desk nomination), An American Daughter, Ancestral Voices; at the Vineyard: Beautiful Child; Encores at City Center: No Strings. Her Broadway career began with Barefoot in the Park, followed by Cabaret, Rex, and Applause (Tony nomination). LA theatre: Betrayal (Drama Critics Circle Award), Seagull (Dramalogue Award), Chekhov in Yalta, Ring Round the Moon, Franny's Way, and Shakespeare's Henry IV, Twelfth Night, As You Like It. For her work on television she received five Emmy nominations and the Emmy Award for "The Elephant Man." She is an artistic associate/faculty member at the O'Neill Cabaret Conference where she developed her own cabaret act.
ShaRon Lawrence is a multi-Emmy Award nominee and SAG winner for her portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowicz on "NYPD Blue." Other recent TV includes: "Desperate Housewives" (for which she received her 4th Emmy nomination), "Monk," "Law And Order: SVU," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Community," "The Mentalist," "The Ghost Whisperer," "Drop Dead Diva," "Dirt," "Privileged" and "Capture of the Green River Killer" for Lifetime Movie Network. She also headlined "Fired Up," her own comedy series produced by Kelsey Grammar for NBC and starred with Alfred Molina, Betty White and Dixie Carter in CBS's "Ladies Man." Stage credits include: Orson's Shadow (LA Drama Critics Circle Award), Chicago (Broadway), among others. Films include: Lies and Alibis, Little Black Book, Gossip. Sharon is married to physician Dr. Thomas Apostle, currently chairs the Women In Film Foundation and also supports a number of ecological organizations and the Alzheimer's Association.

Diane Neal is best known for her role as ADA Casey Novak on "Law & Order: SVU," where she became the longest running ADA in the "Law and Order" franchise history. Since leaving the show, she has starred in "30 Rock," "White Collar," "NCIS" as well as several feature films and TV movies. Her turn in Love, Loss and What I Wore marks a return to Off Broadway after a long absence from the stage, and she is delighted to be here. In addition to this show, Diane is currently performing stand-up comedy in NY, producing the film, Craftique! with her company Socially Awkward Productions, and is a degree candidate at Harvard University.

Sherri Shepherd is best known as one of the Daytime® Emmy Award-winning co-hosts of "The View." Film credits include: Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push' by Sapphire, Who's Your Caddy, Beauty Shop, Cellular, Guess Who and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. She is the executive producer and star of her own sitcom "Sherri" on Lifetime TV. Other TV credits include: "30 Rock," "Less than Perfect," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Suddenly Susan," "The Jamie Foxx Show" and many more. This year, she hosted the pre-show for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards® alongside Jess Cagle and Kathy Ireland. She is the author of a humorous autobiography, Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Yourself a Break. Ms. Shepherd is a celebrity spokesperson for March of the Dimes and is also the national spokesperson for the YAI National Institute. She has a five-year-old son Jeffrey.

COBIE SMULDERS has won over audiences and critics alike in the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother" as ‘Robin Sherbatsky' - a guy's girl, former Canadian teen pop sensation and the only one to ever steal womanizer Barney's heart. Smulders also starred as Juliet Droil in Joss Whedon's ABC drama "Veritas," and also guest starred on "Sex and the City" and "The L Word."

Myra Lucretia Taylor. Broadway: Nine (Tony Award, Best Revival 2003), Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Mule Bone, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Off-Broadway: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, Crazy Mary, Fabulation (Playwrights Horizons). National Tour: Wicked (Madame Morrible). Regional: The Old Settler (World Premiere, McCarter, Long Wharf). International: Royal Shakespeare Company (A Winter's Tale, Pericles). TV: "Law & Order" (all three shows). Film: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Changing Lanes. Myra is a Fox Fellow.

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Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski

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