Tony Winner Ebersole to Offer Holiday Concert Dec. 17

By Andrew Gans
27 Nov 2006

Christine Ebersole
Christine Ebersole
photo by Aubrey Reuben

Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole — back on Broadway this season in Grey Gardens — will return to the intimate stage of Birdland in December.

Ebersole — with frequent cabaret/concert partner Billy Stritch — will perform a holiday concert at the famed jazz club Dec. 17. Show time is 8 PM.

Christine Ebersole received a 2003 Tony nomination for her performance in Lincoln Center’s production of Dinner at Eight. She also received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her work as Dorothy Brock in the hit revival of 42nd Street. Ebersole’s other Broadway credits include The Best Man, Getting Away with Murder, Harrigan 'n Hart, Camelot, Oklahoma!, On the Twentieth Century, I Love My Wife, Angel Street and the City Center Encores! productions of A Connecticut Yankee, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Lady in the Dark and Allegro. She was also seen Off-Broadway in Talking Heads, and her work in the Off-Broadway production of Grey Gardens brought the actress Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards.

Tickets, priced $40 and $60, are available by calling (212) 581-3080 or by visiting www.instantseats.com/birdland.

Birdland is located in Manhattan at 315 West 44th Street.