At 80, Richard Seff is a living museum of theater history and a lifelong New Yorker through and through. A celebrated theatrical agent, he has worked closely with such greats as Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in the original My Fair Lady, with Chita Rivera and the original cast of West Side Story, Kander and Ebb for the original Cabaret and the likes of Bob Fosse, Ethel Merman, and Jerome Robbins.
Self will talk about his new book "My Life Upon the Wicked Stage," a charming memoir by an actor who began his career alongside Claude Rains in Darkness at Noon, worked as a talent agent for 22 years and then returned to the stage and screen. Colorful but never gossipy, the book is also a trove of trivia-for example, the story of how Rex Harrison influenced the title of My Fair Lady, by bellowing "It cannot say REX HARRISON in Lady Liza on a marquee!"
