Who knew there was more of a reason to hit New York's Upper West Side than to see a therapist or grab an over-rated H&H bagel? I've become somewhat of a groupie for Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words at the Triad Theater (located conveniently above the Turkish Grill and just doors down from a Gray's Papaya).
Each week, the theater assembles celebrity readers like Paul Rudd (above), Cheyenne Jackson, Matthew Broderick, Kristen Wiig, Rachel Dratch, Sherri Shepherd, Will Forte, Michael Urie and Carson Kressley and lets -- makes? -- them interpret the autobiographies of great thinkers like Ivana Trump, Tommy Lee, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Loni Anderson, Sylvester Stallone and Kenny Loggins. Thanks to the wonderfully ridiculous words provided by the folks who wrote their autobiographies, the readers don't actually have to do much -- they don't actually change anything in the passages they read from.
I'm not sure what's more hysterical, listening to the absurd level of seriousness celebrities have taken themselves in print -- Sylvester Stallone provides a particularly stirring account of what he keeps in both his refrigerator and his freezer -- or hearing Matthew Broderick, using Tommy Lee's own words, explain how to go down on a woman. (Paul Rudd has read from both Burt Reynolds' My Life and David Cassidy's C'Mon, Get Happy, from which Broderick also read on Monday night.)
The show has an open-ended weekly night run. Check out their site for up to date performance info and ticket information.
-- BILL KEITH
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