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THE ARKTony Award®-Nominee Emily Skinner is Mae West in
DIRTY BLONDE
A Play with Music by Claudia Shear
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore

Emily Skinner as Mae West

"Sexy! Emily Skinner beguiles as Mae West!"
The Washington Post

"I made myself platinum but I was born a dirty blonde."
– Mae West

A funny, bawdy New York hit, Signature's production of Dirty Blonde stars Tony Award®-nominee and Signature favorite Emily Skinner in the two roles she was born to play – cinematic legend Mae West and West's most fixated fan Jo.

Half celeb-bio and half examination of America's fascination with celebrity, Dirty Blonde is a "smart, tough and tenderhearted comedy" (The New York Times). It reveals the individual behind Mae West's sexy celluloid façade and examines why lost souls like Jo are so mesmerized by the provocative sex goddess.

Nominated for five Tony Awards®, Dirty Blonde combines transformation and drama with a fabulous dollop of show biz magic!

Signature Theatre thanks Lola C. Reinsch, J. Almont Pierce, and E. G. Reinsch Apartment Communities for supporting Dirty Blonde.

August 11 – October 4, 2009
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"Big Performances from its three stars make it a winning show!"
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THE CAST

Hugh Nees

Hugh Nees SIGNATURE: Gypsy (Vaudevillian), Over and Over (Homer), Three Nights in Tehran (George Cave). DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre: King Lear (Old Man); The Beaux' Stratagem (Scrub); The Tempest (Trinculo); Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Bardolph); Ford’s: The Heavens are Hung in Black (Stanton and Douglas); Round House: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Cheswick), Alice (Ensemble, Helen Hayes nomination), The Illusion (Matamore, Helen Hayes nomination, Best Supporting Actor); Arena: Christmas Carol 1941 (Marley), Born Yesterday (Eddie Brock), Shakespeare in Hollywood (Joe E. Brown), Polk County (Quarters Boss); Studio: The Pillowman (Ariel), Waiting for Godot (Lucky), Bouncers (Lucky Eric); Source: La Bete (Valere, Helen Hayes nomination, Best Actor). EDUCATION: Santa Clara University. Member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA), SAG, and AFTRA.

 

J. Fred Shiffman

J. Fred Shiffman DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre: Twelfth Night, The Way of the World, The Taming of the Shrew, Lorenzaccio; Arena: (Affiliated Artist) The Mystery of Irma Vep; Death of a Salesman; A View from a Bridge; She Loves Me; Cabaret; Passion Play, a cycle; Damn Yankees; Camelot; The Royal Family; Tom Walker; Lovers and Executioners; The Miser; The Three Sisters; On the Razzle; Animal Crackers; Studio: Souvenir, Privates on Parade, Ivanov, Sylvia, Rhinoceros, The Baltimore Waltz, Falsettos, March of the Falsettos; Woolly Mammoth: Vigils, Wanted; Theater J: The Seagull on 16th Street; Old Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Additionally, Fred has recorded Barefoot in the Park for LA Theatre Works, with Laura Linney and Eric Stoltz. AWARDS: 12 Helen Hayes nominations; two Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding Ensemble; three Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Actor/Resident Play (Souvenir); Outstanding Actor/Resident Musical (Falsettos); Outstanding Supporting Actor/Resident Play (Lovers and Executioners). Proud member of Actors' Equity.

 

Emily Skinner

Emily Skinner SIGNATURE: 2009 Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret, ACE, The Witches of Eastwick. BROADWAY: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Actor’s Fund), Side Show (Tony® nomination, Drama League Award), Jekyll & Hyde, James Joyce’s The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight (Outer Critics Circle nomination). NATIONAL TOUR: Disney's On the Record. OFF-BROADWAY: City Center's Encores: No Strings, Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Broadway Bash; leading roles at the WPA Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, York Theatre, Paramount Theater at Madison Square Garden. DC AREA/REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater, Hangar Theatre, Kennedy Center, McCarter, Long Wharf, The Old Globe, Ford’s, St. Louis MUNY, Theater Virginia. IN CONCERT: Broadway By The Year (director and performer), New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Merkin Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Symphony Space. RECORDINGS: countless cast albums and audio books, Duets, Unsuspecting Hearts, Skinner/Ripley Raw at Town Hall (all with Alice Ripley), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, The Stephen Sondheim Album, Wall to Wall Sondheim, Believe: The Songs of The Sherman Brothers, The Stephen Schwartz Album, animated feature Anastasia, and her self-titled solo CD (fynsworthalley.com).

 

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