Christine Ebersole Returns To Orange County PAC 10/8-11

Award-winning chanteuse, actress and comedienne Christine Ebersole returns to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for her third visit October 8 - 11 in the intimate Samueli
Theater to open the 2009-2010 Cabaret Series. Ebersole has enchanted audiences throughout her
performing career - from the Broadway stage to television series and specials, films, concert
appearances, and recordings - with her amazing voice, endearing personality and vast repertoire of
ballads, jazz, pop, torch, opera, swing and country. Ebersole's engagement at the Center is her only appearance in Southern California until next year.

Tickets to see Christine Ebersole are $72 and go on sale August 23. They will be available at
OCPAC.org, at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling
714.556.2787.

For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 15 or more, call the Group Services office at
714.755.0236. The TTY number is 714.556.2746.

Ebersole has received virtually every Off-Broadway award and her second Tony Award for Leading
Actress in a Musical for her "dual role of a lifetime" as Edie Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. She just ended a successful run in the Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit as Elvira. Other memorable New York stage performances include her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the smash hit revival 42nd Street, Steel Magnolias, On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Dinner at Eight (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations) and The Best Man. She has starred in five City Center Encores! Productions, most recently receiving unanimous praise for her starring role as Margo Channing in Applause.

Ebersole has appeared in many hit movies, including Tootsie, Richie Rich, Black Sheep, Amadeus, Dead Again, Folks!, Ghost Dad, True Crime, My Girl 2, Mac and Me and the recently released Confessions of a Shopaholic. On television, she was seen as the stripper Tessie Tura in Bette Midler's Gypsy, co-starred in the reunion film Mary and Rhoda, with Diana Ross in Double Platinum, and with Jane Fonda in the critically acclaimed The Dollmaker. She starred in the television series The Cavanaughs, Valerie, Ryan's Hope, Related, and Rachael Gunn, R.N., along with appearing in guest starring roles in such hit shows as Will and Grace, Murphy Brown, Cashmere Mafia, Boston Legal, Law and Order SVU, Lipstick Jungle and Samantha Who. In addition, Ebersole was a series regular on Saturday Night Live during the 1981-82 season.

In concert, Ebersole has appeared in numerous halls throughout the country. This past fall, she delighted audiences by participating in the Opening Night Gala of Carnegie Hall's 118th Season. She appeared with the San Francisco Symphony in their tribute to Leonard Bernstein. After making her debut with the Boston Pops two years ago, she returned to Boston's Symphony Hall and Tanglewood last season to star as Desiree Armfeldt in a concert version of A Little Night Music with the Boston Pops. In televised concerts, she has often appeared on PBS, including her star turns in Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and the Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty.

A recording artist as well, Ebersole has released such albums as Christine Ebersole: Live at the Cinegrill, In Your Dreams and Sunday in New York. For more information, please visit her Web site at
christineebersole.com. Below are the remaining performances in the Center's 2009-2010 Cabaret Series. Individual tickets for all performances go on public sale August 23. 

Christine Andreas
November 12 - 15, 2009 - Samueli Theater
Katey Segal | Center Debut
December 10 - 13, 2009 - Samueli Theater
Kelli O'Hara | Center Debut
January 21 - 24, 2010 - Samueli Theater
Paulo Szot | Center Debut
April 8 - 11, 2010 - Samueli Theater
Orange County Performing Arts Center

The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a wide variety of the most significant national and international productions of music, dance and theater to the people of Southern California. It is
committed to supporting artistic excellence on all of its stages and offering unsurpassed experiences, engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and an array of inspiring programs. As Orange County's largest non-profit arts organization, the Center owns and operates the 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall and intimate 250-seat Founders Hall, which opened in 1986, and the 2,000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, which opened in 2006 and also houses the 500-seat Samueli Theater, and the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Education Center's studio performance space and Boeing Education Lab. These state-of-the-art facilities are united by a community arts plaza. The Center's Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and community plaza, along with facilities of the adjacent Tony® Award-winning South Coast Repertory and a site designated as the new home of the Orange County Museum of Art, are located at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a broad range of programming each season for
audiences of all ages from throughout Orange County, and beyond, including international ballet and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, intimate performances of jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical music performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other special events.

It offers many education programs designed to inspire young people through the arts. These programs reach hundreds of thousands of students of all ages with vital arts-in-education programs, enhancing their studies and enriching their lives well into the future.
The Orange County Performing Arts Center is proud to serve as the artistic home to the region's major performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Pacific Chorale.

For more information, visit OCPAC.org. The Center can also be found online at Blogger, YouTube,
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Flickr.

Christine Ebersole
Orange County Performing Arts Center - Samueli Theater
October 8 - 11, 2009
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 7 p.m.
Orange County Performing Arts Center - Samueli Theater
615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Tickets: $72

In person - The Center Box Office
600 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily
Online - OCPAC.org
Phone - 714.556.2787
Open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
TTY number - 714.556.2746
Group Services - 714.755.0236

Information provided is accurate at the time of printing, but is subject to change. Orange County
Performing Arts Center is a private, non-profit organization. "Orange County Performing Arts Center" is a registered trademark.