Changing Shoes: Tina Sloan

For 26 years, millions of fans have known Tina Sloan as nurse Lillian Raines on the soap opera “Guiding Light.”  Now she takes the stage to tell her story from a unique perspective:  through her changing shoes.  

Using her own experiences, Sloan “walks” us through life transitions that every woman can relate to, beginning with her college-girl pink Capezios and her first pair of Chanel pumps.  And then there’s her “Guiding Light” role, where she started out in a pair of white high heels and a fitted nurse’s uniform, and finished off in sneakers and modern nurse’s scrubs.  Film clips from Sloan’s roles in television and the movies add to the fun.

This uplifting and entertaining one-woman show tackles the real-world issues women face as they get older, including looks, love lives and sexuality, changing careers, the empty nest, caring for aging parents, and sense of self.  After all, aging is at times both outrageous and hilarious – and who knows more about reinvention and perseverance than an actress who began her career as the star of show, then became the mother of the star . . . and then the grandmother of the star?  Sloan’s tour de force performance provides plenty of food for thought on how to celebrate all the stages of our lives.   

Changing Shoes is about the beautiful, life changing and sometimes difficult discoveries we make when we least expect them.  You’ll laugh, you’ll cry – and you’ll absolutely love this show about one woman’s search for the meaning of life in a closet full of shoes.

 

 Partial Proceeds to Benefit The Women’s Club of Stuart