Candace Bushnell Tells the Story Behind Sex and the City
A one-woman memoir of the parties, breakups and bylines behind her columns, told from a sofa at the Paramount.
📅 November 5 at the Paramount
🎭 Her Own Version
Bushnell tells her own story in her own order: the bus to Manhattan at 19 in a Loehmann's outfit her mother picked out, the first byline she landed with a wry piece on how to behave at Studio 54, and the man who became Mr. Big, who dumped her as Sex and the City came out in 1996. One performer, a sofa and shelves of her own things: she reads her life back to a room that grew up on it, and the night keeps moving between confession and gossip.
🪑 The Room and the Crowd
The Paramount is a 1930 Art Deco house of 1,865 seats, and the room sits close enough that the front rows become part of the evening. Bushnell works from a sofa in front of a screen of her own photos, and reviews describe her tossing scrunchies into the audience, the whole night running like a private chat over cocktails. The crowd leans toward longtime readers and friends out together. There is no band and no cast: the night is a spoken memoir with a few costume changes and set pieces. Mezzanine and balcony seats are reached by stairs only.
🚪 Before the Curtain
Curtain is 7:30 PM on Thursday, Nov 5 at 1621 Glenarm Pl, doors at 6:30. Tickets are electronic only, seats are assigned through the Ticketmaster map with no general admission floor, and everyone 2 and older needs one; sales cap at 8 per person and Ticketmaster adds convenience fees. Bags stay under 10 by 6 by 4 inches with no check. The venue is non-smoking, and guests who step outside to smoke are not readmitted. Parking is complimentary for most ticketed events at the Tremont Garage, 400 15th St, open two hours before the show and 60 minutes after. Afterward, the three bars below are about 16 to 21 minutes on foot by our own estimate, and all three stay open until 11 PM on Thursday; Ophelia's and Tom's are 21 and over.
