Bette Back On Broadway
The one-person show, “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers,” is scheduled to open April 24 at a Shubert theatre to be determined.
Mengers got her start as a receptionist at a boutique firm before working for ICM and William Morris, where she handled artists including
Playwright John Logan, who also wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “Skyfall,” told the Times he always had Midler in mind while writing the play.
“She’s a proper stage animal,” he said. “In a one-person show in particular, you need someone who can hold an audience, who connects with an audience in a really deeply visceral way, and that’s Bette through and through.”
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