You Are Cordially Invited to…THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY BLONDES!

A Formal Invitation from Melissa Cole...

Your presence is requested at IRTE’s latest production of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY BLONDES presented by the Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival from September 16 to 20! Cue the trumpets!

Ahead of this momentous production, allow us to introduce this year’s honorary inductees into the League of Extraordinary Blondes’ Hall of Fame!

Let’s welcome legendary actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, Grammy award winning singer Mary J. Blige, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Academy Award winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Nobel Prize recipient and scientist Marie Curie into our LOEB Hall of Fame and find out what makes these golden-tressed ladies just so extraordinary…

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Zsa Zsa Gabor

- Blonde ambition since… 1917

- The time this blonde had "more fun": Zsa Zsa has been married nine times. Once, when asked how many husbands she had, she was quoted as responding, "You mean other than my own?"

- Legally blonde: Accused of slapping a Beverly Hills police office in 1989

- The gentleman that prefers this blonde: Married to German-born socialite Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt since 1986

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Mary J. Blige

- Blonde ambition since… 1971

- Oops! She had a blonde moment! Once tweeted, "Why is that people always try to understand estimate my intelligents?! They should never do that!"

- The time this blonde had "more fun": Mary’s dancing has been described as “crazy ass” dancing but it looks like she’s having a blast!

- Legally blonde: Awarded $105,000 in 2014 after winning a countersuit against a concert promoter who sued her for cancelling a performance in Dallas

- The gentleman that prefers this blonde: Married record producer Kendu Isaacs in 2003

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Hillary Clinton

- Blonde ambition since… 1947

- Oops! She had a blonde moment! This presidential hopeful is currently embroiled in controversy over having maintained separate, personal email accounts instead of using official government email accounts when she served as United States Secretary of State.

- The time this blonde had "more fun": Forget about the economy, this blonde former first lady has just the recipe to solve this country’s serious lack of fun being had—summer camp for grownups! "We really need to have camps for adults. … None of the serious stuff. None of the life challenge stuff. More fun. I think we have a huge 'fun deficit' in America,” Clinton said in March 2015.

- Legally blonde: Earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973

- The gentleman that prefers this blonde: Married former president Bill Clinton in Arkansas in 1975

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Gwyneth Paltrow

- Blonde ambition since… 1972

- Oops! She had a blonde moment! Once compared mean Internet comments to surviving war

- The time this blonde had "more fun": Has called rapper Jay-Z her “best friend” and even once sang with him at a concert at the renowned Royal Albert Hall in London

- Legally blonde: In 2014, Paltrow’s lifestyle website Goop was sued by a New York author who specializes in health and wellness for trademark infringement when she used his trademarked title “Diet Detective” on her website

- The gentleman that prefers this blonde: Since divorcing, er, consciously uncoupling from Coldplay front man Chris Martin, Paltrow has reportedly been dating television producer Brad Falchuk

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Marie Curie

- Blonde ambition since… 1867

- Oops! She had a blonde moment! A New York Times profile in 1903 described Curie as “an exceedingly attractive woman, a delicate blonde with fair, blue eyes.” An icon of science, Curie certainly invalidates any commonly held conventions about the mental agility of blondes!

- The time this blonde had "more fun": The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in multiple sciences, Curie discovered the elements radium and polonium and developed a theory of radioactivity.

- Legally blonde: According to the Daily Mail, the Swedish Academy of Sciences wrote Curie in 1911 in an attempt to dissuade her from coming to Sweden to accept her second Nobel Prize because of scandalous rumors allegedly that Curie was a home wrecker and secretly Jewish. Curie wrote back, “The prize has been awarded for the discovery of radium and polonium... I cannot accept that the appreciation of the value of scientific work should be influenced by libel and slander concerning private life.”

- The gentleman that prefers this blonde: Born in Warsaw, Poland, this naturalized-French physicist and chemist married Pierre Curie—also a French physicist—in 1895.

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Congratulations are in order to these ladies who are all certainly extraordinary blondes in their own right but be sure to come see the actual blonde bombshells of IRTE’s LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY BLONDES when they hit the stage at the Dream Up Festival at The Theatre for the New City, starting September 16!

The League of Extraordinary Blondes runs September 16 - 20 at Theater for the New City, Cabaret Theater, 155 First Ave., New York, NY 10003
Tickets $15