Center Stage Theater INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

This off-Broadway theatrical offering is a play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects—mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. The play is based on the 1995 bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman.

Dearest Audience Members, we encourage you to please bring a clothing item to donate! Make a difference in local women's lives!

Love, Loss and What I Wore contains adult themes and language and is not recommended for those 17 and under.

“This show is both funny and painful and is always heartfelt with truly endearing characters telling truthful stories that all women can relate to in one way or another,” said Michelle Kiessel, the show’s director.

“We are doing this as a staged reading (as was originally intended by the show’s creators) which means that the actresses will carry and read from scripts,” continued Kiessel.

The show opened off-Broadway in 2009 and played an astonishing 1,032 performances involving 32 rotating casts and 120 actresses including Tyne Daly, Rosie O’Donnell, Samantha Bee, Jane Lynch, and Rita Wilson, to name just a few. The production won a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience in 2010.

Based on Ilene Beckerman’s 1995 book of the same name, Nora Ephron, who wrote the foreword, said, “[Love, Loss and What I Wore] is not a book about fashion; it is about what clothes really are to us, those moments when we are constantly trying to find our identities through them.

Local audiences will be no stranger to the Ephron sisters’ earlier film work which includes screenwriting and/or directing and producing such romantic comedies as When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail.

"Funny, compelling…Brought down the house…but [the play] is not a comedy: A story about black cowboy boots becomes a sad tale of being underappreciated in a relationship; a tale of two women shopping for their wedding outfits ends bittersweetly; and the recollection of a new bra is a quiet testament to a women's search for dignity while undergoing treatment for breast cancer." —NY Times.

All tickets are general admission seating and are non-refundable. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Doors for all events open half an hour before showtime. Tickets are available online for all seating except for students and faculty. All WSCC and ASM Tech students are allowed 1 comp ticket. ID or Student ID number will be required upon sale, and all comp tickets must be purchased in person. WSCC students and ASM Tech students must put tickets on will call only and must pick them up on the night of the event.

Feel free to contact the WSCC Box Office at 231-843-5507, or stop in to the Bookstore located in the Schoenherr Campus Center. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm

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