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Cariou, Jason Danieley, Josh Groban, Angela Lansbury, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Bernadette Peters, Emmy Rossum, Elaine Stritch and Vanessa Williams were among those who performed in honor of Mr. Sondheim. The performers were accompanied by The Los Angeles Philharmonic with Paul Gemignani as Musical Director and Conductor. The event was produced and directed by Paul Lazarus.
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Legendary Broadway star Elaine Stritch will be the next performer to step into the guest-star spot at Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell. On June 26, for one-night-only, the Tony Award-winning actress take on the role of "Career." Stritch will succeed TV and film star Michelle Trachtenberg (June 19-24).
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Elaine Stritch has had a legendary Broadway career, and here at 77 years old she delivers a performance on a par with anything from her past. She ... tells some fascinating stories from her life, including tales of dating Marlon Brando, and her problems with alcohol abuse. Without question one of the Grandes Dames of Broadway, Elaine Stritch has a career spanning over 50 years with diverse roles in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, Noel Coward's Sail Away, and most famously, Stephen Sondheim's Follies and Company, as well as numerous films and award-winning television series. Now at 77, she's as dynamic as ever, giving an astonishing performance in this highly acclaimed one-woman show. In a series of vignettes punctuated by songs from the shows in which she starred, she tells stories from her career ranging from the hilarious to the deeply moving.
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Elaine Stritch greets customers while selling her new perfume, Stritchy. Fitzwilliam makes a very special request to the Wish Granters Foundation. Repressed senators address discrimination in the insurance industry. Hollywood group therapy participants purge their feelings of May/December relationships. And Maya Angelou reads from Craigslist.
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Straight out of finishing school, American actress Elaine Stritch laid the groundwork for her career by studying drama at New York's New School. Stritch's first stage appearance was in 1944, and her Broadway bow was in 1946. A superlative dramatic actress, Ms. Stritch ... excelled in musical comedy, a genre she returned to off and on into the '90s.
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When midpoint in her Tony Awardñwinning revue showbiz vet Elaine Stritch belts out the song "I’m Still Here," her audience already has grasped that it’s no empty refrain. Mixing musical numbers with personal anecdotes, the septuagenarian Stritch delivers an autobiographical account that extends from her teen years in Michigan – when she swiped her first drink – through a kaleidoscopic career packed with fascinating tales of vintage Broadway. In between the stories and the show tunes are personal confessions involving booze and men (she once said "no" to Marlon Brando and threw over Gig Young after developing a crush on Rock Hudson). The potables proved far more constant companions than the guys... and in her gravelly voice and take-no-prisoners attitude, Stritch relays what was often a solitary, if theatrically spotlighted, existence. Consummately professional, she commands the stage throughout, displaying, under George C. Wolfe’s direction, the talent, bravado and (notwithstanding the confidences) distance of an established diva. Ahmanson Theater, 135 N. Grand Ave., dwntwn.; Tues.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 5 p.m.; thru April 27.
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