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About the Show
Carrie Fischer may frequently throw witty barbs at her famous parents (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fishcer) in her one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, but Fisher learned to take the eccentricities of her upbringing in stride, the Star Wars actress recently told The Baltimore Sun.
"Yes, [growing up] in show business is different, but not really," Fischer said. "I put the ordinary in 'extraordinary.' I think people like hearing that you can not only survive some of these things, but thrive from them."
Fisher details the rocky relationship she and her mother maintained throughout her life in Wishful Drinking. "When my mother put me in her nightclub act when I was 13, like all mothers do, I had very, very bad stage fright," Fisher said of early stage experiences with her mother. "So I was afraid to perform [Wishful Drinking]. My legs used to shake." Nevertheless, Fischer is now at ease on stage and the two have become quite neighborly and even currently live in adjacent houses. “We don't see each other all the time, but my mother does call and gander up more frequently.”
Fischer's father was also able to catch the show before dying after complications from hip surgery in 2010. “[My father] loved my show," Fischer said. "He was in a wheelchair and came onstage. We sang together, and the audience gave us quite an ovation. He even stood up, as if he'd been healed."
Wishful Drinking opens at the Hippodrome Theatre on January 31 and runs through February 12. The show opened on Broadway in 2009 and was later filmed and broadcast on HBO in 2010. The production is directed by Tony Taccone.
