Daughter Of Shirley Maclaine To Perform Her One Woman Show LUCKY ME at Burgorff Center Maplewood, NJ Sunday, May 22 at 3pm
LUCKY ME, written by Sachi Parker and Frederick Stroppel, is preparing for a New York production in the fall of 2011. It will be presented as a semi-staged reading with no intermission, and will be followed by a Q & A session with Ms. Parker.
Online, May 17, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Few lives can claim the rollercoaster swoops and swerves of actress Sachi Parker's. Born in Los Angeles but raised in Tokyo, she studied in England and Switzerland, worked in Hawaii and France, was engaged to a sheep-rancher in Australia, traveled the world as a stewardess for Qantas Airlines, and finally settled down in Malibu to be with her mother - who happened to be Shirley MacLaine. In LUCKY ME, she finally tells the world what it's like to be the daughter of the most celebrated singing dancing Academy-Award-winning reincarnated spiritualist in this world (and the next).
Sachi moved to Japan to be with her dad, businessman Steve Parker, in 1958 when she was 2 years old. She saw her mother periodically throughout her youth, but never really got to know her until she moved into her Malibu house at the age of 25. From that point on, she learned more about her fabulously talented, famously eccentric mom than anyone could have imagined.
Written with playwright Frederick Stroppel, LUCKY ME is the funny-sad story of Sachi's long odyssey of self-discovery, as she struggles to reconnect with her mother and escape from her imposing shadow at the same time. It spans the Rat-Pack-Vegas-"Mad Men" world of the 60's through the free-love consciousness-raising 70's to the New Age self-absorption of the 80's and 90's, finally landing in the present wherever-we-are-now.
LUCKY ME is also the compelling tale of trying to make it in Hollywood, fighting for a piece of the spotlight when your fiercest rivals are closer than you think. There are warm and admiring remembrances of legendary actors - Gregory Peck, Geraldine Page - as well as acid-sharp portraits of the schemers and buffoons who roam the hills of La-La Land.
And ultimately, it's a bittersweet love letter to a mother who is at once universally beloved and an enigmatic puzzle, a larger-than-life figure who commands the spotlight and yet seems always beyond reach.
For tickets visit www.whatexittheatre.com or call 973 763 4029.
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