Elaine Stritch At Liberty...At The Carlyle
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 1, 2008
Closed Jan 19, 2008

Playing at
Café Carlyle

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The Carlyle Hotel presents the return of its resident leading lady Elaine Stritch in Elaine Stritch At Liberty...At The Carlyle, with musical director Rob Bowman conducting an orchestra.

Stritch's critically-acclaimed one-woman Broadway show is a musical evening that traces her career, including roles in Company, The Little Foxes, Bus Stop, A Delicate Balance, Sail Away and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The show received a 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event, as well as two Drama Desk Awards -- Outstanding Solo Performance for Stritch and Outstanding Book of a Musical for Stritch and John Lahr.

Dinner is required and will be served from 6:30pm.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Café Carlyle
35 E 76th St
New York, NY 10075

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

In 1961, I was in New Haven when Elaine Stritch introduced Noel Coward's hilarious "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" in Sail Away. In this number -- which talks of crass American tourists "churning up the gravel as they gaze at St. Peter's dome" -- the peerless Stritch churned up her own gravel voice to derive every laugh that Coward had built into the laffer. That rendition was a master class in the art of putting across a comedy song.

Now 47 years later, Stritchie -- as dear Noel addressed her -- is reprising "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" in
Elaine Stritch At Liberty...At The Carlyle, a reprise of her Tony Award-winning, two-act solo show. And if anything, the masterful entertainer's[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Jan 3, 2008