Julia Sweeney's Hit One-Woman Show Comes To The Bushnell
The Los Angeles Times wrote: “ (Julia Sweeney) is a gale-force breath of fresh air into the mostly politic dialogue about religion in our time.”
November 10, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Hartford, CT – October 22, 2007 – Julia Sweeney’s (Saturday Night Live) hit one-woman show, which has played to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles and New York, will be presented in the Belding Theater at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. for one performance only.
Tickets for Julia Sweeney “Letting Go of God” are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting The Bushnell Box Office at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford, by calling (860) 987-5900 or online at www.bushnell.org. Groups of 10 or more should call (860) 987-5959. Tickets are $34.00.
“Letting Go of God” is Julia’s most ambitious monologue to-date. The show, which she work-shopped for four years at various comedy clubs around Los Angeles, chronicles her journey from believing in God to letting go of the whole idea of God, and her many struggles to find him along the way. She rejoined the Catholic Church, the faith she was happily raised in, she studied Buddhism, she trekked to monasteries in the Himalayas, she embraced the New Age ideas of Deepak Chopra, and finally discovered science and the scientific method. Something that she didn’t even realize she had missed! This changed everything for her.
“Letting Go of God” is Julia’s third monologue. The first monologue, “God Said Ha!” was performed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater in New York. Miramax released the film version, produced by Quentin Tarantino, in 1998.
Julia’s second monologue, “In the Family Way” was performed to sold-out houses in New York and Los Angeles in 2003 and early 2004. She performed this monologue last year at the Hollywood Bowl, accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing an original score written expressly for the monologue.
Public Radio International’s Ira Glass put an excerpt of “Letting Go of God” on his show, “This American Life,” and it was the most popular story they have ever had on the show, or as Ira put it, “it was the ‘Jurassic Park’ of ‘This American Life’.”
About The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
The Bushnell is Connecticut’s premier performing arts center, hosting more than 350 events yearly, including major Broadway tours, symphony orchestras, family presentations, local arts and community events. The Bushnell is home to two theaters- the historic 2,800-seat Mortensen Hall, and the 907-seat Belding Theater, a state-of-the-art performance hall that opened in 2001. The Bushnell’s nationally-recognized arts-in-education program, PARTNERS (Partners in Arts and Education Revitalizing Schools), now in its 14th year, is a cross-community educational effort serving 22 schools in 12 districts throughout the Greater Hartford area. The Bushnell opened in January 1930 and is a non-profit organization. For more information, call The Bushnell at (860) 987-6000, The Bushnell Box Office at (860) 987-5900 or visit our website at www.bushnell.org.