FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY Presents BETTY BUCKLEY In "For The Love of Broadway!", 2/2-2/27
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 11, 2010
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, continues its star-studded Winter/Spring 2010 season with the return engagement of Tony Award winning singer and actress Betty Buckley for performances from February 2-27.
In an exclusive four week run of the new show "For The Love of Broadway!" Ms. Buckley will perform theater songs she's always wanted to sing from shows like South Pacific, The Pajama Game, The King and I, Avenue Q and Nine. She will be joined by her longtime music director / arranger Kenny Werner on piano - with whom she is celebrating 20 years of collaboration - as well as Tony Marino on bass and Billy Drewes on reeds. Emmy and Grammy Award winner John McDaniel serves as musical consultant and has provided special material.The title "For The Love of Broadway!" was chosen from a fan submission contest via Twitter. The winners are David Traub of Woodland Hills, CA and Liana Morris of Burwick, ME.
Betty 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 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. Off-Broadway credits include Lincoln Center's Elegies, the original NYSF production of Edwin Drood, The Eros Trilogy and Juno Swans. Regional credits include Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real and Buffalo Gal. She starred in the London production of Promises, Promises.
Ms. Buckley has recorded eleven of her own CDs. Her latest Quintessence, featuring her ensemble led by jazz great Kenny Werner, is Buckley and Werner's ninth album together. It is the perfect bookend to Betty Buckley 1967. Both CDs were recently released by Playbill Records/SonyBMG. She received her first Grammy Award nomination for Stars And The Moon: Betty Buckley Live At The Donmar. She received her second Grammy Award nomination for the audio book The Diaries Of Adam And Eve.
She appears in the HBO mini-series The Pacific produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in the spring of 2010. Her other television credits include the 2006 "Kennedy Center Honors." She has also starred for three seasons in the HBO series "Oz" and as Abby Bradford in the hit series "Eight Is Enough." She has appeared as a guest star in numerous television series, miniseries and films for television including "Evergreen," "Roses For The Rich," the CBS series "Without A Trace" and "Law & Order: SVU" for NBC.
She co-starred in M. Night Shyamalan's film The Happening released in 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.
For over thirty-seven years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation, giving workshops in Manhattan and various universities and performing arts conservatories around the country. She has been a faculty member in the theatre department of the University of Texas at Arlington, the Terry Schreiber Acting School in New York City and currently in Fort Worth, TX. In April of 2009, Ms. Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007.
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will play the following schedule: Tuesday through Thursday at 8:30 PM and Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 PM and 10:30 PM. All shows have a $60.00 cover with $75.00 premium seats. The 8:00 PM and 8:30 PM shows have an additional $40.00 food and beverage minimum; the 10:30 PM shows have a $25 food and beverage minimum. For all shows, there are a select amount of seats based on availability with a $40 cover charge and no food/beverage minimum. Jackets are suggested but not required.
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY is located at 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street in New York City. For ticket reservations and club information, please call (212) 339-4095 or visit us online at feinsteinsatloewsregency.com and TicketWeb.com.FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY
WINTER/SPRING 2010 SCHEDULE
"The Second Time Around"
January 19 - 30
All New Show - Feinstein's debut
March 2 - 13
March 16 - 28
Feinstein's debut
March 23 - 27
SHEERA BEN-DAVID
March 31 - April 3
"All Of Me"
April 6 - 17
WILL & Anthony Nunziata
"From Pelham To Park Avenue"
April 20 - 24
Celebrating her debut CD "Live at Feinstein's"
May 4 - 15
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FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY
SPECIAL CONCERT SERIES
"Live at Feinstein's"
January 12
EMILE PANDOLFI
January 13 and 14
ERIC Michael GillETT
"All My Best"
January 15 and 16
January 17
JOHN MALINO
January 18
HENRY BUTTLER'S JAMM-BALAYA
January 24
BRADEN-RAPP
CD Release Event - "The Strayhorn Project"
January 25
"Ella and Me"
January 31
"Back In Town"
February 7 and 8
February 14
February 15
Michael Urie & BECKY NEWTON
February 21
March 1
WEST 73rd - THE Kurt Weill PROJECT
March 7 and 8
March 21
March 22
March 28
TAIHISHA GRANT
"A Dream Realized"
April 5
AARON CARUSO
April 11
BROOKS ARTHUR & TRAV LIVINGSTON
"The Jay Livingston Songbook"
April 18 and 19
NANCY MARANO
April 25
April 26
May 2 and May 23
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