Discounted Preview Added to Stritch's At Home at the Carlyle, Sept. 10

By: Sep. 02, 2005
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Broadway legend Elaine Stritch, who will be making her cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle (Madison Ave. and 76th St.) from September 13th through October 29th, has added an additional September 10th preview performance to her show as well as lowering the cover price to $75 for that date.

The show's title, At Home at the Carlyle, refers to the fact that Stritch is a longtime resident of the famed hotel at which the cabaret is located. The show will also offer the work of a number of accomplished Broadway professionals. Stritch will be backed by a six-piece band led by her musical director Rob Bowman, Jonathan Tunick (the arranger of Company and other Sondheim shows) will handle the arrangements and Tony Award-winner Jules Fisher will do so for the lighting design. The cabaret will feature Stritch, with her trademark deadpan wit, performing new material. As with her Tony Award-winning show At Liberty, she will regale the audience with anecdotes and stories about a career that has spanned over 6 decades.

Beginning her career in musical comedy on Broadway, Stritch went from standing by for Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam to her Tony-nominated performance in the revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. Her Broadway credits include Angel in the Wings, Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Bus Stop, Goldilocks, Sail Away (which she performed in both New York and London), and most recently in concert at Carnegie Hall to celebrate Noel Coward's centennial), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (following Uta Hagan in the role of Martha), Company (earning a Tony Award nomination as the sardonic Joanne) and Show Boat. In London's West End, she starred in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady and Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings. Other stage credits include the concert version of both Follies and Company at Lincoln Center and her appearance in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters.

Stritch made her film debut in the 1957 remake of A Farewell To Arms. She co-starred in the 1977 Alain Renais film Providence and the award-winning BBC television series Two's Company. Other film credits include Cocoon: The Return, September, Out To Sea, Krippendorf's Tribe, An Unexpected Wife, Small Time Crooks and Autumn in New York. Her television credits include "The Cosby Show," "3rd Rock from the Sun," and "Soul Man." She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in "An Inconvenient Woman," and won an Emmy for her recurring role on "Law & Order." Stritch won a Tony Award and two Drama Desk Awards for the Broadway production of Elaine Stritch At Liberty and a 2004 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program." She toured her show across the country, ending in San Francisco. She was recently seen in Monster-in-Law, and will next be seen in "Romance and Cigarettes" directed by John Turturro.

At Home at the Carlyle will play Tuesday-Saturday evenings at 8:45 PM; the cover charge is set at $105 for Tuesday-Thursday evenings and $125 on Friday and Saturday nights. Call (212) 744-1600 for reservations, and visit www.thecarlyle.com for more information.

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