I just found out last night that besides Tippi Hedren, Ms. Veronica Cartwright will be joining us us for our amazingly low cost benefit performance. I mean seriously folks, there’s no excuse to not to go to this… Besides being Cathy Brenner in The Birds Veronica has quite the impressive body of work. Alien, The X-Files, The Witches of Eastwick, etc., etc.,

HELL IN A HANDBAG PRODUCTIONS WELCOMES LEGENDARY HITCHCOCK BLONDE, TIPPI HEDREN
Join us for a special performance of Caged Dames, to benefit Tippi Hedren’s
ROAR FOUNDATION/SHAMBALA PRESERVE
Caged Dames
A Shocking New Musical!
Book, Music & Lyrics by David Cerda
Directed by Scott Bradley

Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.
October 19, Thursday- 8pm
Admission: $35, includes pre-show reception with Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright at
Joey’s Brickhouse, 1228 W. Belmont, 6:00-7:30pm
For reservations call the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre box office at (773)883-1090
High resolution press pictures, bios and interviews available at http://www.handbagproductions.org/
For additional information call the Handbag hotline @ 312/409-4357
Chicago, IL – Hell in a Handbag Productions is proud to announce a special benefit performance of their shocking new musical Caged Dames. Proceeds benefit the Roar Foundation/Shambala Preserve, founded by their good friend Tippi Hedren, star of the classic films, The Birds and Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Ticket holders are also invited to a pre-show reception for appetizers, a cash bar and a chat with Tippi!

Caged Dames by David Cerda is a musical parody of 1950’s women in prison/exploitation films that tells the gripping tale of an innocent young woman who - through a series of unfortunate events - finds herself in the Calumet City Women’s Penitentiary. Needles to say, her life changes forever…
The Tippi Hedren/ Hell in a Handbag connection began in the Fall of 2001 when Ms. Hedren attended the critically acclaimed Chicago production of The Birds, an offbeat adaptation of the classic Hitchcock film. When this adaptation, written by David Cerda and Pauline Pang opened in Los Angeles in 2005, Tippi Hedren helped champion the LAWeekly Theater Award nominated production.

‘I’m thrilled to have Tippi with us’ says David Cerda, Artistic Director of HIAH Productions. ‘I’m a huge fan of hers and a friend and I’m so glad we can help the Roar Foundation. She’s just a wonderful woman’.

The Roar Foundation’s Shambala Preserve, founded by Tippi Hedren, is a 501(C)(3)nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization that provides sanctuary for exotic animals - who have suffered from gross mistreatment and neglect - so they can regain their physical and mental health and live out their lives in dignity.

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