Fun Home's Sydney Lucas Joins Starry Hollywood Arms Reading With Tyne Daly | Playbill

News Fun Home's Sydney Lucas Joins Starry Hollywood Arms Reading With Tyne Daly Fun Home Tony Award nominee Sydney Lucas will be part of the Sept. 21 concert reading of Hollywood Arms, the autobiographical 2002 play by actress Carol Burnett and her late daughter Carrie Hamilton.

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Burnett and Philip Himberg, artistic director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, will introduce the 8 PM reading, which will be directed by Mark Brokaw.

Lucas joins a cast that includes Tony winner Tyne Daly, fellow Fun Home Tony nominee Emily Skeggs and original Hollywood Arms Broadway cast member Michele Pawk.

The play was drawn from Burnett's memoir, "One More Time," and marked the return of Harold Prince as a Broadway producer/director (teaming with Arielle Tepper). A combination of the dramatic and the comedic, the play was penned by Burnett in collaboration with daughter Hamilton, who died of cancer in January 2002 before she could see it realized on Broadway.

Hollywood Arms chronicles the life of a woman named Helen in pre- and post-World War II Hollywood. Helen lives in an apartment building — the Hollywood Arms — at the foot of the Hollywood hills. The piece contains a cavalcade of characters, including a pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother who cares for the heroine, Helen, after the divorce of her parents; a wide-eyed and distant mother who longs to be a celebrity interviewer (Pawk); and a recovering drunk father who wants to be the daddy he never was.

Pawk won a Tony Award for her performance as Louise, a role inspired by Burnett's own mother, in the original Broadway production, which ran 76 performances at the Cort Theatre. The play was developed at the Sundance Festival in 1998 and played at Chicago's Goodman Theatre before Broadway.

Tickets can be ordered at kaufmanmusiccenter.org/hollywoodarms.

 
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