Ebersole and Stritch Come To B'way @ Birdland, 6/30

  Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, have announced Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch in a concert celebrating their new recording SUNDAY IN NEW YORK, Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch bring their acclaimed live performance to disc on their latest CD, Sunday in New York.  Released on May 13th on the Ghostlight Record label, the jazzy new vocal album was produced by Grammy Award winner Russ Titelman (Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon) and features 13 tracks ranging from Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" to Stephen Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around."  The collection was culled from material the pair arranged for one of their many Birdland appearances.

In a recent review of their performance at Lincoln Center, The New York Times' Stephen Holden commented: "Ms. Ebersole, a bright, zany soprano and ebullient clown, can whirl on a dime, and in a show like Grey Gardens, evoke an inexpressible sorrow under a facade of garrulous pluck.  When she adds a spinning vibrato to her lemony voice, she can turn into a playful latter-day Kathryn Grayson or Jeanette MacDonald, which she began to do on Friday during "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top."   Mr. Stritch, a pop-jazz pianist, gifted arranger and Liza Minnelli protégé with a photographic musical memory...is a solid exponent of the gregarious, swinging Las Vegas style epitomized by Steve Lawrence."

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

WHEN: Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 7:00p.m.

WHERE: Birdland, 315 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Aves), New York City    

TICKET INFO
Tickets: $40.00 + $10.00 Food/Drink Minimum (Per Person)
VIP Tickets: $60.00
Tickets can be purchased Online: www.BIRDLANDJAZZ.com; or by Telephone: 212.581.3080.

ABOUT BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND
Created by acclaimed performer, writer, producer & presenter Jim Caruso, BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND is a weekly concert series on Monday evenings, showcasing legendary Broadway performers and composers, as well as up-and-coming musical theater talents.  Started as a companion piece to the hugely popular and hilarious weekly impromptu variety show Jim Caruso's Cast Party (which follows Mondays at 9:30pm). BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND has recently hosted such diverse performers as Jason Robert Brown, Lucie Arnaz, Melissa Errico - as well as the benefit concert Chita Rivera LOVES BROADWAY CARES, which sold out two shows in record time.

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