Sardi’s to Host Morrow Wilson Performing David Sunshine
New York, NY (PRWEB) July 02, 2013 -- At 5 PM on Thursday, July 11, the most venerable and famous theatrical restaurant in New York will become the site of a reading of excerpts from the new novel, David Sunshine, by its author, Morrow Wilson.
Fortunately, Morrow Wilson is himself a performer. An award-winning actor, a singer and a successful voice-over artist, this is not his first such outing.
Says Morrow Wilson: “I’ve read excerpts from the book at The Players, at a Columbia University alumni event, and now at the most celebrated restaurant in the theatrical world.”
If this seems an odd mix of literature and showbiz, that is also an apt description of David Sunshine, an entertainment that New York Times book reviewer Elliot Fremont-Smith called “delightful and full of truth,” and that Morrow Wilson calls “a social novel in the tradition of Dickens” as well as “a comedy of substance in the tradition of Mark Twain.”
Set in the time and the New York City of “Mad Men,” David Sunshine is a story of the TV industry in the 1960s. It is funny; it is heart-breaking; it is even encouraging. Filled to overflowing with the colorful and varied characters of the time, it tells the tale of an innocent young man who comes to the big city and goes to work for the most famous and highly-regarded TV producer/talk show host in the land, who proudly (if privately) boasts of being a successful con man.
“I remember the first time I came to Sardi’s,” says Morrow Wilson. “I was completely in awe of the place. And I can remember the last time I saw my first boss, David Susskind. He was a table away from me in this very establishment. We had a good talk.”
And the caricature of his late wife, Rue McClanahan, still watches over Morrow Wilson “every time I come here.”
Owner Max Klimavicius, who has worked at the restaurant for 39 years and who partnered with Vincent Sardi, Jr. in 1990, says, “I can’t think of a better or more appropriate place to read from this novel than Sardi’s. One of the book’s important scenes is actually set here, the way it was back then.”
About his choice of excerpts from David Sunshine, Morrow Wilson just laughs. “As the announcer sort of used to say, ‘The story you’re about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed – to make you laugh.’”
Starting at 5 PM, for half an hour on Thursday, July 11, a room at Sardi’s will resound with the many voices of the way it was, way back in the early 1960s. Admission is free. The reading will be followed by a book signing.
Sardi’s is located at 234 West 44th Street, and is open six days a week, closed only on Mondays because that is when Broadway’s theatres are dark.
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