Wallis Center for the Performing Arts (aka The Wallis) announces Betty Buckley: Ghostlight for a single performance tonight, January 24, 2015 at 8:00 pm in the Bram Goldsmith Theater.
Buckley and her band will take The Wallis stage for an evening of music from her new album Ghostlight. The new recording re-unites her with longtime friend and producer
T Bone Burnett on the release by Palmetto Records. When Buckley and Burnett were both 19 years old, living in Fort Worth, TX, they began making music together.
Buckley, who has been called "The Voice of Broadway," is one of the theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. Burnett's highly sought after involvement in music, film, TV and stage projects is marked by his uncanny ability to successfully combine his unique artistic sensibilities with massive commercial appeal. These two friends and talents created an atmosphere that takes us to another time and place.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, "The return of the much-missed
Betty Buckley... in support of her superior pop album, Ghostlight -- is a special occasion. The record, produced by her fellow Texan,
T Bone Burnett, touches all four corners of Ms. Buckley's complicated sensibility: the Texan country girl, the Broadway diva, the New Age jazz singer and the aficionado of great, offbeat pop songs. The show amounted to a master class in song selection and interpretation by a voice...and sensibility of an interpreter, who, at her best, can take you to the center of the Earth all by herself."
"T Bone single-handedly changed the world of music and makes each project more perfect than the last," says Buckley. "The gift of this project is beyond my ability to even express; it is my dream record."
"All great art comes from the edge, not a place of comfort," commented Burnett. "Our vision was for a ghostly haunting sound, which I called 'crime jazz,' giving the project a timeless feel."
The title of the recording comes from the tradition in the theatre where, after the performance, in the dark theatre, a lone light bulb is left on at night to keep the ghosts company. This light is called a ghost light. The recording of Ghostlight was made at the legendary Village Studios in Los Angeles.
Single tickets for
Betty Buckley: Ghostlight are available by visiting
www.thewallis.org, in person at The Wallis Ticketing Services at 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210, and by phone at
310-746-4000.
For more information about
Betty Buckley, visit her website
www.bettybuckley.com
About The Wallis
Located in the heart of
Beverly Hills, California, the Wallis
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (aka "The Wallis") brings audiences world-class theater, dance and music, performed by many of the world's most talented and sought-after artists. With eclectic programming that mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles, and its notability as the entertainment capital of the world, The Wallis offers original and revered works from across the US and around the globe. This fall marks The Wallis' second season, which also includes its prestigious "Arts& Ideas" series, conversations with guests from the realms of culture, literature and politics. Housed in a breathtaking 70,000-square-foot venue designed by Zoltan E. Pali, FAIA of Studio Pali Fekete architects, The Wallis celebrates the classic and the modern. This is reflected in the juxtaposition of the restored, original 1933
Beverly Hills Post Office (on the National Register of Historic Places) that serves as the theater's dramatic yet welcoming lobby, and houses the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater, as well as a theater school for young people, and the contemporary 500-seat, state-of-the-art Bram Goldsmith Theater. Together, these two structures embrace the city's history and its future, creating a performing arts destination for LA-area visitors and residents alike.
Betty Buckley is an actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. She most recently was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame for 2012.
Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats." She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Carrie.
She co-starred in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening released in June 2008. Other films include her debut in Brian de Palma's screen version of
Stephen King's Carrie, Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies,
Roman Polanski's Frantic,
Woody Allen's Another Woman and Lawrence Kasden's Wyatt Earp.
On television, Buckley recently guest starred on HBO's "Getting On" and the CW hit "Pretty Little Liars." She appeared in "The Pacific" for HBO and on the Kennedy Center Honors. She also starred for three seasons in the HBO series "Oz" and as Abby Bradford in the hit series "Eight Is Enough."
Buckley has recorded 16 CD's, among them Bootleg: Boardmixes from the Road, Quintessence,
Betty Buckley 1967 and the GRAMMY nominated Stars and the Moon,
Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar. Her CD, Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway, was released by Palmetto Records in August 2012. She received her second GRAMMY Nomination for the audio book The Diaries of Adam and Eve.
Most recently, Buckley received a Drama Desk Nomination for "Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play" for her performance this season in the World Premiere of
Horton Foote's The Old Friends at the
Signature Theatre in NYC.
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