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 Century, Oklahoma, Camelot,
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Steel 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 Amadeus, Tootsie, Richie
Rich, Black Sheep, Dead Again, Folks!, Ghost
Dad, True Crime, My Girl 2, Mac and Me,
and Confessions of a Shopaholic. Her television credits include
appearances on Retired at 35, Royal Pains, Ugly
Betty, Law and Order SVU, Boston Legal, Samantha
Who, Will and Grace, The Nanny, Just Shoot
Me, Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, Valerie, Ryan’s
Hope, One 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.