Photos: Linda Lavin Brings 'Starting Over' to 54 Below

Tony and Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin takes the 54 Below stage this week, performing Broadway favorites, standards, jazz, and even some songs she learned from the great girl singers. Check out a look back at her first performance this week at 54 Below!

New York audiences remember her from It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Broadway Bound, Collected Stories, The Diary of Anne Frank, Gypsy, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, and many others, and the world over knows her as Alice Hyatt in the long-running hit TV series Alice. A veteran of the cabaret stage, Linda began her career playing such NYC nightspots as The Showplace in Greenwich Village and midtown's Downstairs at the Upstairs. Recently, Linda released her very first CD, Possibilities.

Lavin is joined by Musical Director Billy Stritch, Ron Affif on guitar, Steve Doyle on bass,Steve Bakunas on drums and special guest violinist, Aaron Weinstein. Tickets include a $40-50 cover charge. $85 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum. Lavin plays 54 Below tonight and tomorrow, as well.

Photos by Stephen Sorokoff

Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin

Billy Stritch, Musical Director

Billy Stritch & Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin & Steve Bakunas

Linda Lavin & Steve Bakunas

Billy Stritch & Linda Lavin

Aaron Weinstein

Linda Lavin

Billy Stritch & Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin & Steve Bakunas

Linda Lavin & Aaron Weinstein

Michele Lee & Linda Lavin

EDa Sorokoff & Michele Lee

EDa Sorokoff & Linda Lavin

Michele Lee & Jamie deRoy

Michele Lee & Sunny Sessa

Steve Bakunas & Michele Lee

Anthony Nunziata & Linda Lavin

Michele Lee & Stephen Sorokoff

Arlene Levitz Lebowitz & Alan Lebowitz

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