We all love to wallow in the disgraces of others, especially when they are famous artists. Wishful Drinking tickets allow us to do it on a personal level, in an ultra-cool setting; New York’s Studio 54. If you’re looking for the ultimate hip performance this year, Wishful Drinking tickets are it. Carrie Fisher – AKA Princess Leia of Star Wars – led an atrociously wild life, and she retells it here in all its drunken glory. Among the more famous of Fisher’s proclamations is this one: “Maybe I shouldn’t have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but who cares, my life is over anyway.” That comes from her very first book, “Postcards from the Edge”, a thinly-veiled autobiography. “Postcards” was several books ago if you’ve been following Fisher’s literary arc, and Wishful Drinking is, if anything even more concise, more cutting, yet infinitely funnier. This is why Fisher is now a living Broadway production. That said, Wishful Drinking tickets are more than tickets to Broadway, or tickets to an artsy celebration of generic rejection of the estabishment; Wishful Drinking tickets represent a turn towards honesty and raw facts – siphoned through the quality control of humor and presented as a spectacle you can enjoy. Exactly what the drunken misadventures of Hollywood stars represents to the entertainment world is hard to say, but it sells Broadway tickets, without question. The woman who will forever be Princess Leia has chosen to take the stage and unleash this masterpiece of pop-culture madness upon us – and for that we should be thankful. Check out the Wishful Drinking schedule and plan on meeting Carrie Fisher head-on sometime soon. It’s an absolute riot!

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