Love, Loss And What I Wore Opens Tuesday - Full Cast Announced!

Charlotte, NC – Producer Daryl Roth and Blumenthal Performing Arts announces the first national tour of Love, Loss, and What I Wore opens Tuesday in the McGlohon Theater at Spirit Square.  The off-Broadway hit will play for one week only Jan. 24-29. 
Tickets are on sale now.Tickets are available at BlumenthalArts.org, 704-372-1000 or from the box office in the Belk Theater lobby, 130 N. Tryon St. 
Written by Nora Ephron  (Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail) and Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail, Hanging Up), Love, Loss, and What I Wore opened in October 2009 at New York’s Westside Theatre (407 W 43rd Street), where it’s broken all box office records.  Based on the best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons’ friends, and directed by Karen Carpenter, this collection of stories dares to ask, “Can’t we all just stop pretending anything is ever going to be the new black?”  Love, Loss, And What I Wore opens the closet on this and other sartorial queries by using clothes as a metaphor for matters far deeper than the average walk-in closet, creating one of the most enduring theatergoing experiences in New York and now across the country.
The production, which was honored with the 2010 Drama Desk Award and a Broadway.com Audience Award, recently kicked off its first national tour at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse theatre Sept. 13, 2011 and has had productions in Los Angeles, Canada, Australia, Paris, South America and more.
The Charlotte touring cast of Love, Loss And What I Wore includes:
EMILY DORSCH. Broadway: In the Next Room (Lincoln Center Theater), A Man For All Seasons
(Roundabout Theatre Company). Regional Theater: In The Next Room (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Bossa Nova (Yale Rep), The Miracle Worker (Paper Mill Playhouse). Television: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Gossip Girl” and “New Amsterdam.” She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University, and an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
DAISY EAGAN is the youngest actress to win a Tony Award for her performance as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations). Broadway: Les Miserables, James Joyce’s The Dead. Off Broadway and Regional include: World premieres of Be Aggressive and On the Mountain; A View from the Bridge, The Wild Party (L.A. Weekly Award). TV/Film credits include: “Numbers,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “The Unit,” “Without a Trace,” Ripe and Losing Isaiah. More Information at www.daisyeagan.com
SONIA MANZANO has been playing Maria on “Sesame Street” since the early seventies. Stage work includes the original production of Godspell, Vagina Monologues and The Exonerated. Manzano has earned fifteen Emmys as a writer for “Sesame Street,” and has published two children’s books, No Dogs Allowed! and  Box Full Of Kittens with Simon and Schuster. Scholastic will publish her first novel in the fall 2012. She is working on a memoir.
LORETTA SWIT became an American icon starring in television’s most honored series, M*A*S*H. She has been honored with two Emmys, People’s Choice Award, Genie Award, Silver Satellite Award, ten Emmy nominations and eight Golden Globe nominations. Her signature piece, Shirley Valentine, won her Chicago’s most prestigious honor, the Sarah Siddons Award. On Broadway, she starred in Same Time, Next Year and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Toured with Mame, Song of Singapore, 42nd Street and did The Vagina Monologues in New York, London and Chicago. She has eight features to her credit and 25 films for television.
MYRA LUCRETIA TAYLOR. Broadway: Nine (Tony Award, Best Revival 2003), Macbeth, Electra,Chronicle of A Death Foretold, MuleBone, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Off Broadway: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, Crazy Mary, Fabulation (Playwright's Horizons). National Tour: Wicked (Madame Morrible). Regional: Mary (world premiere/Goodman), Going to St. Ives (Barrington Stage), The Old Settler (world premiere/ McCarter, Long Wharf). International: A Winter's Tale; Pericles (Royal Shakespeare Company). TV: “Law & Order” (all three shows), “The Big C.” Film: Silver Tongues, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Changing Lanes. Myra is a Fox Fellow.