The show has been part of her repertoire for more than two years now after acclaimed runs in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. “If it turns out good, you can make a lot more, it’s a lot better,” she said, ‘but then you’re risking that you don’t sell it.”įilming of “Older and Wider” will nearly be the end of that particular monologue she’ll do one more show at the Groundlings in Los Angeles on April 6, then that’s it. Sweeney is funding the project, then will take it around to outlets afterward and hopes that it finds an audience. “Everywhere I’m going, I’m like, ‘Go to my website, there’s a popup window, put your name in and how many tickets do you want,’ ” she said, “and I’m hoping that kickstarts it.”
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The rest will sell for $25 a pop, and she hopes to have the room as full as possible both nights. To help make sure there are as many enthusiastic people as possible in the Fox those two nights, Sweeney decided to give away 500 tickets each night at the back of the house sign up for them at her website,. “We fly in, we walk in, and Steve goes, “This is the most beautiful theater.’ ” “So we literally drove to the airport, I called (Fox general manger) Brian Ritter and said, ‘Can you meet us there in three hours?’ ” she said.
We should go see it,” Sweeney recalled during a recent interview at Central Food in Kendall Yards. “So I turned to him and said, ‘I know the most beautiful theater, in my hometown of Spokane, the Fox theater, where I used to work as an usher in high school. The former “Saturday Night Live” star originally planned to film the show at a theater in Seattle, but when she and her friend Stephen Kessler, who she asked to direct, went to check out the place she had booked, neither of them felt it had the right vibe. Sweeney will be filming “Older and Wider” over two days at the Fox – April 2 and 3. And she’s still a bit nervous because she has to draw a big crowd to the Fox not once, but twice. Now, Sweeney is planning on bringing “Older and Wider” back to the Fox. She needn’t have – the show sold well as friends, fans and family from her hometown clamored to hear the comedienne, actress and writer talk about her life. The last time she brought her one-woman comedy show, “Older and Wider,” to Spokane, in September 2018, Julia Sweeney was worried about filling the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.
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