Broadway @Dreamland: Christine Ebersole

Showings

Main Theater Mon, Jul 23, 2018 7:30 PM
INFORMATION
Rating:Unrated
Run Time:1h 30min
Category:Live Events
Concerts

Description

Dreamland & Mark Cortale present

Broadway @ Dreamland

Two Time Tony Award Winner

CHRISTINE EBERSOLE

with Sirius XM Star SETH RUDETSKY as music director/host

Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole performs makes her Nantucket debut along with Sirius XM Radio host and creator/star of Broadway's Disaster! Seth Rudetsky as pianist and host. This unscripted evening  will be a seamless mix of intimate, behind-the-scenes stories of her career through insightful, funny and revealing questions posed by Rudetsky. 

Christine Ebersole starred most recently on Broadway in War Paint in her Tony nominated role as Elizabeth Arden, opposite fellow Tony nominee Patti LuPone as Helena Rubinstein. She won her second Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as virtually every Off-Broadway award, for her “dual role of a lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. The critically acclaimed musical was nominated for a total of ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the CD recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. This past February she made her LA Opera debut as the Old Lady in Francesca Zambello's production of Candide conducted by James Conlon.  

 

Her extensive Broadway career also includes her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the hit revival of 42nd Street, in addition to leading roles in On the Twentieth CenturyOklahomaCamelot, Gore Vidal’s The Best ManSteel Magnolias,  the recent revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and Dinner at Eight for which she received both Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominations. Concert appearances include the concert version of the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony’s tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the Boston Pops’ concert version of A Little Night Music, and PBS concerts Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty.

 

In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Christine Ebersole has also appeared in numerous hit films such as AmadeusTootsieRichie RichBlack SheepDead AgainFolks!Ghost DadTrue CrimeMy Girl 2Mac and Me, and Confessions of a Shopaholic. Her television credits include appearances on Retired at 35Royal PainsUgly BettyLaw and Order SVUBoston LegalSamantha WhoWill and GraceThe NannyJust Shoot MeMurphy BrownAlly McBealValerieRyan’s HopeOne Life to Live and The Colbert Report.

 

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on Sirius/XM Stars. As an author, he penned My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan and the sequel The Rise And Fall Of A Theater Geek (Random House) as well as three volumes of Seth's Broadway Diary featuring inside scoop and hilarious stories from all of the stars he's worked with. He co-wrote and co-starred in Disaster! (NY TIMES “critics pick") last season on Broadway. Disaster! which also premiered to rave reviews in London's West End. In June 2016, he and his husband, James Wesley, co-produced a recording of What The World Needs Now with stars like Idina Menzel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Carole King, Audra McDonald which went to number one on iTunes and raised $100,000 for the Orlando shooting victims (and is still raising money. Buy it!). On Inauguration Day 2017, he and James started Concert For America, a monthly series around the country (including S.F.!) helping 5 non-profits being hurt by the current administration. Stars such as Kelli O'Hara, Barry Manilow, Stephanie Mills, Vanessa Williams, Andy Cohen and more have performed and you can watch the next one streamed live on ConcertsForAmerica.com. For more information visit www.sethrudetsky.com