Arts & Entertainment
The Real Carrie Bradshaw, Candace Bushnell, To Dish 'Sex And The City' On Long Island
Her true tales will bring the audience on a whirlwind tour of NY from Studio 54 to the "Lipstick Jungle" and beyond, organizers say.

PATCHOGUE, NY — New York literary icon Candace Bushnell, the creator of the international best-selling "Sex and the City" book series is bringing her one-woman show, "The True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City," to the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts on Nov. 8.
She promises to take the audience "on a whirlwind tour of New York City, from Studio 54 to the "Lipstick Jungle" and beyond, sharing her remarkable stories of fashion, literature, and sex while pouring cosmos in Manolos," event organizers say.
"Grab your Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte and join the OG Carrie Bradshaw for a Girls’ Night Out," a promo for the show reads.
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Bushnell’s onstage memoir proceeds at a quick clip, according to organizers.
She climbed off the bus to Manhattan in a Loehmann’s outfit picked out by her mother, hoping to write her way to a Pulitzer, and landed her first byline with a "wry piece" on how to behave at Studio 54, suggesting that if someone dies, "ignore them," organizers say.
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She met her "Mr. Big," and then he dumped her in 1996 just as she published the book “Sex and the City,” which would "upend how readers, and later viewers, thought about women and sex," according to organizers.
Tickets run from $45 to $75 for the VIP Meet and Greet upgrade.
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