ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY MOVES TO BROADWAY FOR 80 PERFORMANCES ONLY!

PREVIEWS BEGIN AT THE NEIL SIMON THEATRE ON FEBRUARY 6th. THE OPENING NIGHT IS FEBRUARY 21st.

Following the completely sold-out, universally critically acclaimed run at The Public Theater, ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY transfers to Broadway's NEIL SIMON THEATRE (250 W. 52nd Street, NYC - TicketMaster: 212-307-4100), beginning Wednesday, February 6th for 80 performances only! The opening night is Thursday, February 21st. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, December 11th at the box office. Box-office hours are Monday through Saturday 10:00 am until 8:00 pm and Sunday 12-noon until 6:00 pm. Tickets are also available through TicketMaster or on the web at http://www.ticketmaster.com/.

ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY opened at The Public Theater on November 7, 2001 to unanimous critical raves and audience acclaim. The show broke box office records at The Public for how quickly tickets sold and has been extended three times.

Elaine Stritch takes center stage with an evening of the songs and stories from her legendary career. She dated Brando, covered Merman and performed Coward. From her start as an aspiring actress living in a New York City convent to her signature rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch," at long last, ELAINE STRITCH is AT LIBERTY to tell it and sing it like it is - and was - in the theater, and her life.

ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY is being produced on Broadway by John Schreiber, Scott Sanders of Creative Battery, Margo Lion and Robert Cole, in association with Roy Furman and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. The show is directed by George C. Wolfe, constructed by John Lahr and reconstructed by Elaine Stritch. The scenic design is by Riccardo Hernāndez, lighting design is by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, costume design is by Paul Tazewell, sound design is by Acme Sound Partners, the orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick and music direction is by Rob Bowman.

Ms. Stritch began her career in musical comedy on Broadway. She went from standing by for Ethel Merman in "Call Me Madam" to creating some of her own and Broadway's memorable roles. Born in Detroit, Stritch studied with such luminaries as Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Rod Steiger at the New School in New York City, under the direction of Erwin Piscator. On Broadway, in the musical "Angel in the Wings," she introduced the song "Civilization." Next came the Broadway revivals of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "Pal Joey" and "On Your Toes." This was followed by her first New York dramatic appearance in "Bus Stop," directed by Harold Clurman, and her film debut in the 1957 remake of "A Farewell to Arms."

Her first starring role on Broadway came in "Goldilocks," and after NoÔl Coward caught her performance, he specifically wrote "Sail Away" for Stritch, which she performed in both New York and London, and just recently in concert at Carnegie Hall to celebrate Coward's centennial. She then starred in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway following Uta Hagen in the role of Martha, and made her memorable appearance in the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth/Harold Prince musical "Company." That show, in which her rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch" became legendary, brought Stritch back to London where she remained for 15 years. In London's West End, she starred in Neil Simon's "The Gingerbread Lady" and Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings." She also co-starred in the 1977 British film "Providence," and the award-winning television series "Two's Company."

Back in America, Stritch appeared in the films "Cocoon: The Return" and Woody Allen's "September" and on stage in the concert version of both "Follies" and "Company" at Lincoln Center. Then came her favorite dramatic appearance in A. R. Gurney's "Love Letters" with Jason Robards. On television she has a recurring role on "Law and Order," for which she won an Emmy Award, and she played a schoolteacher on "The Cosby Show." She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the miniseries "An Inconvenient Woman" by Dominick Dunne. Other recent television credits include "3rd Rock from the Sun" and "Soul Man" with Dan Ackroyd.

In 1995, she starred on Broadway as 'Parthy' in Harold Prince's revival of "Show Boat." In 1996 came her unforgettable performance on Broadway in Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," which earned her the Drama Critic's Award, and her fourth Tony Award nomination. Stritch starred in the film "Out to Sea" with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, "Krippendorf's Tribe" with Richard Dreyfuss, "An Unexpected Life" with Stockard Channing and Stephen Collins, Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks," and "Autumn in New York" with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder.

ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY will play Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 5:00 pm for 80 performances only beginning on Wednesday, February 6, 2002 through Sunday, May 26, 2002.

 

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