Tickets are $50 (plus $2.50 service charge), reserved seating. Proceeds to benefit Playhouse on Park.
*This performance of “Lisa Lampanelli: Irrelevant!” is a script-in-hand workshop event with audience talk-back and Q&A to follow. There will also be a pre-show wine and cheese reception!
It’s the end of 2020, and Lisa Lampanelli is lost.
Having toiled for more than 30 years on her dream -- to become the world’s best insult comic -- Lisa had a single purpose, an obsession. Then, in November 2018, she walked away from it all, with some money in the bank, a house she didn’t really love, and another dream: to become a life coach and help people achieve THEIR very own dreams.
Great plan, huh?
Well, maybe not. Fast-forward two years, and things haven’t worked out exactly as Lisa had planned. Instead of juggling the self-help book deal and full schedule of coaching clients she had imagined, Lisa is completely, utterly and, amazingly to her, without a rudder. Her days consist of Netflix binges, eating foods she shouldn’t, complaining on the phone, and trying to figure out how it all went so wrong. She had left the world of standup BY CHOICE, hadn’t she? She was supposed to transition into a new career, wasn’t she? I mean, the phrase “From the Queen of Mean to the Queen of Meaning” was just too good NOT to work. But alas, it hadn’t.
Two years after retiring, Lisa is the one thing she never thought she’d be: irrefutably, inarguably, unmistakably IRRELEVANT. And it’s anything but comfortable.
In her new solo show, “Lisa Lampanelli: Irrelevant!,” the former comedian reveals all about her later-in-life path to find relevance. From trying hobbies that imploded to becoming a chronic meddler to adopting her parents’ personae, Lisa will share her humorous take on her struggles to cobble together a life with her career-less self at the center. The ultimately hopeful journey in “Lisa Lampanelli: Irrelevant!” will resonate with audience members who have felt unmoored in their own post-pandemic, post-career, and post-relevance world.