Tony and Emmy-winning actress Elaine Stritch, who was scheduled to offer her acclaimed evening of Stephen Sondheim tunes to San Francisco audiences at The RRazz Room May 23-June 10, has postponed her engagement due to illness.
You just can't count on professionalism anymore. Ethel would never have cancelled. At 86, she would have been dead 10 years, but she still would never have cancelled.
Elaine Stritch to Make Walt Disney Concert Hall Debut with Sondheim Show
Stage legend Elaine Stritch will make her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim…One Song at a Time, on Saturday, May 19 at 8pm. Rob Bowman serves as music director and pianist in this concluding concert for Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2011/12 Songbook series. Stritch won a Tony and two Drama Desk Awards for the Broadway production of Elaine Stritch At Liberty. She won Emmy Awards for the television adaptation of that show, as well as for guest appearances on Law & Order and 30 Rock. The now 87-year-old performer has made numerous Broadway appearances, most recently in 2010 playing Madame Armfeldt opposite Bernadette Peters' Desirée in A Little Night Music.