Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy
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Opened Jun 2, 2009
Closed Jun 27, 2009
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In her show, Debbie Reynolds takes the audience on an intimate journey through her six-decades in show business as only Reynolds can: with equal measures wit, music and fearlessness! This engagement makes Miss. Reynolds first appearance on a New York stage in more than 25 years.
Debbie Reynolds earned an Academy Award nomination for her work in the movie musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." The triple-threat is also known for performances in Singin' in the Rain, How the West Was Won and The Catered Affair as well as her TV show, The Debbie Reynolds Show. Reynolds was Tony-nominated for her performance in Irene, and later assumed the lead role in Broadway's Woman of the Year.
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Few performers have more of a right to sing "I'm Still Here" than Debbie Reynolds, so it's no surprise that the famed Stephen Sondheim tune shows up in
Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy, now at the Café Carlyle for a month-long engagement.
But unlike so many previous performers at the Carlyle, who have trumpeted the anthem with full gusto as their finale-cum-summation, Reynolds presents the song almost at the top of her act, complete with an ultra-bouncy tempo and almost all of Sondheim's lyrics replaced with special ones detailing some of Reynolds' early experiences in Hollywood. It's just one early indication that the Tinseltown legend and the legendary New York boit[...]