Carrie Fisher brings Wishful Drinking to Toronto

American actress and comedian Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking is to play in Toronto next July.

Mirvish announced the autobiographical show Wednesday as a replacement for Sweet Charity, which has been dropped from the Mirvish season.

Fisher, the Star Wars star who chronicled her downfall in the book Postcards from the Edge, continues her comic take on her own Hollywood journey in Wishful Drinking.

The daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, she made her film debut in Shampoo and became a household name as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy.

She has been candid on the screen and in print about the Hollywood hangover that followed. Fisher's recent credits include roles on Entourage, Family Guy and The Women, and she frequently parodies herself on big screen and small.

Wishful Drinking  premiered in November 2006 and has played in Seattle, Los Angeles and on Broadway. It runs July 12 to Aug. 21 in Toronto.

Sweet Charity, in a production by the Menier Chocolate Factory, was to have run in July. A revival of the 1966 musical about a good-hearted showgirl closed two months early in London despite drawing raves from critics and audiences.

Mirvish also announced that The Man in Black, a tribute to Johnny Cash by St. Louis singer-actor Shawn Barker, will play for two weeks in February.

Quebec's André-Philippe Gagnon will do five performances in December of his show The One-Man Parade, in which he impersonates everyone from Elvis Presley to Barry White to Susan Boyle. Gagnon has been a star of Just for Laughs.