People & Committed to Play Arts Theatre
by Broadway Staff • Oct 1, 2004
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, Toby Young's one-man show based on his book of the same name, and the solo show Fully Committed, featuring original off-Broadway star Mark Setlock, will both be coming to the West End's Arts Theatre.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is Young's account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor of Vanity Fair to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. But it's not just a collection of self-deprecating anecdotes, it's also an attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. The stage adaptation of the work had a limited engagement at the Soho Theatre earlier this week with Jack Davenport playing Young. It will begin performances at the Arts on October 25 with Young, who will be making his theatrical acting debut, playing himself for the first six weeks of the run.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is Young's account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor of Vanity Fair to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. But it's not just a collection of self-deprecating anecdotes, it's also an attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. The stage adaptation of the work had a limited engagement at the Soho Theatre earlier this week with Jack Davenport playing Young. It will begin performances at the Arts on October 25 with Young, who will be making his theatrical acting debut, playing himself for the first six weeks of the run.
In Becky Mode's Fully Committed, Setlock plays Sam, a restaurant reservationist, and all 36 characters who besiege him in an attempt to book a table. The show had a successful run off-Broadway and at various locations throughout the United States. It is currently in the midst of a hit engagement at the U.K. fringe venue, the Menier Chocolate Factory, through October 17. It will join How to Lose Friends & Alienate People at the Arts in December.
Fully Committed will perform early shows with How To Lose Friends And Alienate People beginning at 9pm. As previously reported, the Arts' current tenant, Bombshells, is scheduled to close on October 16.