Asking For It follows one woman’s hysterical and heartbreaking journey from “Outstanding Catholic Youth of the Year” to the stage of Radio City Music Hall to the cast of A Chorus Line. She experiences repression and redemption, faith and femininity, and finds humor and humility on a journey to create her own life. With song, dance, and deeply felt words, Joanna Rush portrays that woman, along with a colorful cast of characters ranging from uptight clerics to sexy chorines and growing boys. Hilarious, irreverent, and deeply moving, Asking For It leaves audiences—male and female, of all ages—inspired and renewed. - Asking For It Details A trio of outstanding women of the theater have given life to Asking For It. The play was conceived, written by, and stars, award-winning actress and writer Joanna Rush. It is directed by acclaimed choreographer and Tony- and Drama Desk– nominated director and choreographer (for Swing!) Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and produced by actress-director-teacher-producer Jana Robbins. The play was seen at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival. Excerpts were chosen by the United Nations Council for the Empowerment of Women and The Hunger Project for performance at the International Women’s Day in 2008. Now, in time to mark Women’s History Month, this “brave work” (WBAI radio) that succeeds in “finding the truth of one’s life in a culture of lies” (BBC Radio 4) comes to Lincoln Center.
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