Stories on Stage presents Eccentrics Unlimited September 24, 2011

STORIES ON STAGE
ECCENTRICS UNLIMITED

DENVER, – Stories on Stage presents an unhinged look at people off-kilter in “Eccentrics Unlimited” featuring the wife and husband team of Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, plus an original story by the Lighthouse Writers Workshop contest winner. Show times are 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 24 at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Single tickets are $25; student tickets are $15; tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org.
Accomplished actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker are perhaps best known for their portrayals of Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz on NBC's long-running hit series L.A. Law. In addition to appearing in numerous television movies and feature films, Eikenberry has earned four Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Golden Globe Award. Tucker has received three Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations, appeared in numerous films, was a regular on the acclaimed HBO series Tracey Takes On starring Tracey Ullman, and has hosted Chicken Soup for the Soul.
The couple have appeared on stage together in A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” and Joseph Stein and Stan Daniels’ “Enter Laughing: The Musical,” and on television in “Hill Street Blues,” “A Family Again,” “Assault and Matrimony,” “A Town Torn Apart”, “Gone in a Heartbeat”, and “Archie’s Wife,” which also featured their daughter, Alison. Jill and Michael have reprised their roles in “Enter Laughing – The Musical” and are currently performing at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY.
Jill co-produced a one-hour documentary for NBC entitled “Destined to Live,” which dealt with the emotional aspects of breast cancer, from diagnosis to recovery. Jill battled the disease in 1986 and in this documentary tells her story with humor and hope. “Destined to Live” was honored with a Humanitas Award.
Jill and Michael also produced the documentary film entitled “Emile Norman – By His Own Design”, about the 90 year old self-taught California artist, Emile Norman, who worked with a passion for life, art, nature and freedom that inspired him through seven decades of a changing art scene and turbulent times for a gay man in America.
More info, and complete bios, at www.tuckerberry.com
The Stories
But the One on the Right by Dorothy Parker read by Jill Eikenberry
Dorothy Parker, journalist, writer, and poet was a legendary literary figure known for her biting wit. She worked on such magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair during the late 1910s and went on to work as a book reviewer for The New Yorker in the 1920s. A selection of her reviews for this magazine was published in 1970 as Constant Reader, the title of her column. She remained a contributor to The New Yorker for many years; the magazine also published a number of her short stories. One of her most popular stories, “Big Blonde,” won the O. Henry Award in 1929.
The Jewish Hunter by Lorrie Moore read by Michael Tucker
Lorrie Moore won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest at age 19. Upon graduation from Cornell, and with the help of her agent, she sold her collection Self-Help, composed almost entirely of stories from her master's thesis, to Knopf in 1983. Her first story to appear in The New Yorker,"You're Ugly, Too," was later included in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. Another story, "People Like That Are the Only People Here," also published in The New Yorker, was reprinted in the 1998 edition of the annual collection The Best American Short Stories.
A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner read by Jill Eikenberry
William Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting he created based on his own native Lafayette County. Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States and was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Plus an original story by the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Contest winner.
Celebrating their 11th Season, Stories on Stage has great actors bring stories to life by combining literature with theater.
Eccentrics Unlimited is sponsored in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD), Colorado Creative Industries, Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado and the Ralph and Florence Burgess Trust.
Stories on Stage presents Eccentrics Unlimited - Featuring L.A. Law’s wife and husband team Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker. Saturday, Sept. 24 - 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Tickets $25 - Online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523.