What do Elizbeth Arden, Edith Bouvier Beale, ”Little Edie” Beale, Guenevere, Ado Annie and Dorothy Brock all have in common? They were all played by Christine Ebersole on Broadway. The two-time Tony Award winner brings her show, An Evening with Christine Ebersole to The Wallis on Friday, February 28th.
Ebersole created the role of Elizabeth Arden in War Paint (starring opposite Patti LuPone as Helena Rubinstein). She won her second Tony Award (and a plethora of Off-Broadway awards) for her dual roles as Edith Bouvier Beale and “Little Edie” Beale in Grey Gardens. Guenevere is, of course, the object of two men’s affections in Camelot. Ado Annie is the girl who just can’t say no in Oklahoma! Dorothy Brock was her first Tony Award-winning performance from a revival of 42nd Street.
All of those credits mean that Ebersole has a vast catalog to pull from for these show. And this doesn’t include her two albums with Billy Stritch, her 2010 recording Christine Ebersole Sings Nöel Coward and her 2013 record, Strings Attached.
Helping her to shape the show is another Tony Award winner, Scott Wittman (Hairspray) who directs. The music director is Lawrence Yurman, who served as Music Director and Conductor for War Paint and Grey Gardens. Scott Frankel, who wrote the music for those two musicals, will be her special guest.
In other words, there are a lot of talented people making An Evening with Christine Ebersole possible. But it is Ebersole whose name is on the ticket and it is Ebersole who will enchant. As anyone who has seen her in one or more of those musicals above will agree.
For tickets go here.
Photo of Christine Ebersole by Kit Kittle (Courtesy of The Wallis)
