Betty Buckley Announces Upcoming Concerts in Connecticut and Boston

Broadway comes to New England in a big way when Tony Award-winning singer and actress Betty Buckley takes the stage in both Boston on February 26th and Old Saybrook on February 27th.

In an award-winning career that has encompassed TV, film, stage and concert work around the globe, Betty Buckley is probably best known as the quintessential musical theatre actress. Dubbed "The Voice of Broadway," the multitalented artist is one of a precious few who helped change the face of musical theatre acting with her realistic, naturalistic approach to roles that run the gamut from the wife of an early U.S. President (1776), which marked Buckley's Broadway debut, through a critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-nominated performance as deluded, silent-screen star Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard), a part she re-created on Broadway to equal success.

Buckley, it should be noted, helped revolutionize the modern musical theatre in story, song and sound. For anyone who has ever heard the Tony-winning actress sing, it is evident she possesses one of the finest, and perhaps the most unique, instruments: a voice of supple steel, capable of piercing the soul with either its razor-edged belt or ethereal upper register. It is one that spans the dynamic range of vocal colors, a voice that has been stopping the hearts of concert and theatregoers for years.

Yet, it is not just the voice that creates the magic, it is Buckley's consummate acting skills as well as her intelligent approach to material. Like a pointillist painting, all these elements somehow combine to form a masterwork, and one can't help but become mesmerized by the world of her artistry. Whether she's breaking your heart with Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Memory" in her Tony-winning turn as Grizabella the Glamour Cat in "CATS", bringing down the house with "The Writing on the Wall" in a gender-bending performance in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" or simultaneously frightening and moving an entire audience as religious fanatic Margaret White in the cult-classic musical "Carrie", a Betty Buckley performance is one that remains indelibly etched into one's mind and soul.

If you would like to see this dazzling broadway legend this weekend, you can purchase tickets on scullersjazz.com and katharinehepburntheater.org . To learn more about Buckley and see if she's coming near you anytime soon, check out her website at bettybuckley.com.

Photo Credit: Robert Catto