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Lady Bird, Pat and Nancy: Tea for Three
What Exit Theate Presents Emmy-winning actress in "LADY BIRD, PAT & BETTY: TEA FOR THREE", PORTRAITS OF THREE FORMIDABLE FIRST LADIES. Three performances only!
October 8-10 At Burgdorff Cultural Center
Three former First Ladies will be sharing secrets in Maplewood Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 8-10 in the unforgettably vivid one-woman show, Lady Bird, Pat &
Betty: Tea for Three, at the Burgdorff Cultural Center in Maplewood, NJ.
Written by Eric H. Weinberger with Elaine Bromka, and starring the Emmy Award-winning Ms. Bromka, the play is a witty and intimate re-imagining of three women who
suddenly found themselves celebrities -- a behind-the-scenes look at Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford, revealing the personal cost of what Mrs. Nixon called
the "hardest unpaid job in the world."
Touring the country, Tea for Three has been critically acclaimed for its blend of humor and passion, cited as "marvelous, poignant" (The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.) and "a
fascinating evening, laced with insight, emotion and humor… brilliant acting" (The Record-Review, in Westchester County.)
Ms. Bromka has thirty years' experience in film, television, Broadway, and off-Broadway. She appeared as the mom in Uncle Buck with John Candy, as Stella on Days
of our Lives, and on E.R., The Sopranos, and Law and Order.
The inspiration for Tea for Three came when Bromka starred opposite Rich Little in The Presidents, which she performed across the country and on PBS. Called upon to impersonate eight of the most recent first ladies, she ended up spending months poring over videotapes of the women. Studying nuances of their body language and speech
patterns to explore psychologically why they moved and spoke as they did, she became more and more drawn in by their personalities.
"These were women of intelligence and grit who suddenly found themselves in a fishbowl," Bromka observed. "I realized I wanted to tell the story from their point of
view." "And I wanted to explode myths. Pat was called 'Plastic Pat' in the press, for example, because she was always smiling. Look more closely at her eyes, though.
There's nothing plastic about her. You see the eyes of a private, watchful survivor."
Her collaborator, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominee Weinberger, is the author of several off-Broadway plays, including Wanda's World and Class Mothers '68. He and Bromka zeroed in on the three women, linking their stories by revealing each one at the threshold moment of the end of her time in the White House.
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LocationBurgdorff Cultural Center
10 Durand Road
Maplewood, NJ 07040
United States
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Kid Friendly: No |
Dog Friendly: No |
Non-Smoking: No |
Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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