KITTY HART CELEBRATES 94th BIRTHDAY IN HER FEINSTEIN'S SHOW

FEINSTEIN'S at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue, NYC - 1-212-339-4095 - http://www.feinsteinsattheregency.com/ ) will begin their Fall 2004 season with the 94th birthday party for Kitty Carlisle Hart, from September 21st through 23rd. Mrs. Hart's celebration will feature her singing standards by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and others, in addition to lively and fascinating stories about the people she has worked with over the years. Musical director David Lewis will accompany her on piano. The show will play the following schedule for this engagement: Tuesday, September 21st; Wednesday, September 22nd; and Thursday, September 23rd at 8:30 pm. All shows have a $60 cover plus a $5 booking fee, and $40 minimum.

Kitty Carlisle Hart is a major New York society figure as well as a singer and actress whose performances range from Broadway musicals like Rodgers & Hart's On Your Toes, major operas like the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and classic film roles opposite the Marx Brothers and Bing Crosby. More recently she has appeared in films such as Radio Days, Six Degree of Separation and Catch Me If You Can. She is perhaps best remembered for being a regular panelist on the long-running television show "To Tell the Truth" for fifteen years.

Mrs. Hart was born in New Orleans and educated in Europe. She attended school in Switzerland and went to the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics. She studied acting in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has gone on to a long record of achievement in the arts and public service. Kitty Carlisle Hart's first appearance on Broadway was in Champagne Sec. She most recently was seen in the 1984 revival of On Your Toes. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1967 as Prince Orlofsky in Die Flerdermaus. Kitty Carlisle Hart's film appearances include a starring role in the classic A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers and opposite with Bing Crosby in She Loves Me Not and Here Is My Heart. In recent years she has lectured extensively throughout the United States.

She is Chairman Emeritus of the New York State Council on the Arts. Mrs. Hart served as Chairman from 1976 until 1996. Appointed in 1971 by Governor Nelson Rockefeller as Vice Chairman, Mrs. Hart was appointed Chairman by Governor Carey in 1976 and was re-appointed by Governor Cuomo. Mrs. Hart is the third person to occupy the post since the Council's founding in 1960. She chaired the Statewide Conference of Women and was later appointed Special Consultant to Governor Nelson Rockefeller on Women's Opportunities.

Ms. Hart was appointed to the 1990 Independent Commission to review the National Endowment for the Arts. Mrs. Hart received the National Medal of Arts from President George Bush on July 9, 1991. She has also received appointments to the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers of Harvard's Music School and to the Visiting Committee for the Arts at MIT. Mrs. Hart has also served as a member of the board of the Empire State College, and as an associate Fellow of the Timothy Dwight College, Yale University. She is now an Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. She was married to Pulitzer Prize winning playwright-director Moss Hart, who died in 1961.

 

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