Song List Announced for Stritch Carlyle Cabaret, Opening Sept. 13

By: BWW News Desk Sep. 13, 2005

Elaine Stritch's At Home At the Carlyle will feature the star singing standards by Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, Jerry Herman and Noel Coward, among others. The show opens tonight, September 13th, at the luxe cabaret venue; it will run through October 29th.

Included in the show's song list are "Yes, I Can," "Perfectly Marvelous," "I Think I Like You," "I Wanna Get Married," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Why Him," "I Went to a Marvelous Party," "He Was Too Good to Me," "That's Him," "I've Been Alone Too Long," "Fifty Percent," "Dear World," "You're the Pop (You're the Top)," "Could I Leave You?," "Heart" and "It Amazes Me."

The show's title, At Home at the Carlyle, refers to the fact that Stritch is a longtime resident of the famed hotel at which the cabaret is located. The show will also offer the work of a number of accomplished Broadway professionals. Stritch will be backed by a six-piece band (Rob Bowman on piano, Lou Bruno on bass, Dave Gale on trumpet, Jack Gale on trombone, Paul Pizzuti on drums and Les Scott on reeds) led by her musical director Bowman, Jonathan Tunick (the arranger of Company and other Sondheim shows) will handle the arrangements and Tony Award-winner Jules Fisher will do so for the lighting design. The cabaret will feature Stritch, with her trademark deadpan wit, performing new material. As with her Tony Award-winning show At Liberty, she will regale the audience with anecdotes and stories about a career that has spanned over 6 decades.

Beginning her career in musical comedy on Broadway, Stritch went from standing by for Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam to her Tony-nominated performance in the revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. Her Broadway credits include Angel in the Wings, Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Bus Stop, Goldilocks, Sail Away (which she performed in both New York and London), and most recently in concert at Carnegie Hall to celebrate Noel Coward's centennial), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (following Uta Hagan in the role of Martha), Company (earning a Tony Award nomination as the sardonic Joanne) and Show Boat. In London's West End, she starred in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady and Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings. Other stage credits include the concert version of both Follies and Company at Lincoln Center and her appearance in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters.

Stritch made her film debut in the 1957 remake of A Farewell To Arms. She co-starred in the 1977 Alain Renais film Providence and the award-winning BBC television series Two's Company. Other film credits include Cocoon: The Return, September, Out To Sea, Krippendorf's Tribe, An Unexpected Wife, Small Time Crooks and Autumn in New York. Her television credits include "The Cosby Show," "3rd Rock from the Sun," and "Soul Man." She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in "An Inconvenient Woman," and won an Emmy for her recurring role on "Law & Order." Stritch won a Tony Award and two Drama Desk Awards for the Broadway production of Elaine Stritch At Liberty and a 2004 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program." She toured her show across the country, ending in San Francisco. She was recently seen in Monster-in-Law, and will next be seen in Romance and Cigarettes directed by John Turturro.

At Home at the Carlyle will play Tuesday-Saturday evenings at 8:45 PM; the cover charge is set at $105 for Tuesday-Thursday evenings and $125 on Friday and Saturday nights. Call (212) 744-1600 for reservations, and visit www.thecarlyle.com for more information.

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Song List Announced for Stritch Carlyle Cabaret, Opening Sept. 13

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