CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named Jennifer Coolidge the recipient of their Woman of the Year Award. The award is Hasty Pudding’s oldest, and has been bestowed yearly since 1951.
“We are so excited to welcome Jennifer Coolidge back to her hometown and to Harvard, the iconic
setting of Legally Blonde,” awards coordinator Maya Dubin mentioned in a press release. “We know she’ll fit right into the Pudding’s musical spectacular, though she’ll still have to earn her Pudding Pot onstage.”
Coolidge will lead a parade via Harvard Square on Feb. 4 to have fun her Woman of the Year Award. Hasty Pudding will then host a celebratory roast of Coolidge and current her with their Pudding Pot. A press convention will comply with, and Coolidge will then attend Hasty Pudding’s manufacturing of Cosmic Relief.
Coolidge is finest recognized for her work in movie and tv, together with her current Emmy-winning activate HBO’s The White Lotus. But she can also be a nine-year veteran of L.A.’s Groundlings improv and sketch comedy troupe and has carried out on Broadway twice: in The Women in 2001-02 and in Elling in 2010. Coolidge is an alumna of Emerson College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Founded in 1770, Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University is a performing arts group and an advocate for satire and discourse as instruments for change worldwide. Each yr they a produce a student-written musical burlesque, the Pudding Show.
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