Everybody Rise: Elaine Stritch Will Make Farewell Appearance in NYC in Movin' Over and Out at the Carlyle

By Adam Hetrick
20 Mar 2013

Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch
Photo by Aubrey Reuben

Tony Award-winning stage icon Elaine Stritch will propose a final toast to audiences in her last engagement at the Café Carlyle this spring. The octogenarian, who has been a fixture at the New York hotel for decades, will bid gotham farewell and exit to her home state of Michigan.

Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle: Movin' Over and Out, running April 2-6, will mark New Yorkers' final chance to see Stritch perform in Manhattan. The 88-year-old actress, perhaps best-known for playing Joanne in Stephen Sondheim's musical Company, is retiring from performing and will be moving to Michigan. She is a Detroit native. 

Billed as a "a freeform evening of story and song," Stritch will be joined by her longtime musical director Rob Bowman at the piano. All shows will be at 8:45 PM.

Stritch has played four extended and sold-out engagements at the Carlyle in recent years. A documentary, "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," which captures part of her New York adieu, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring. Click here to read about the film.

"It's a little frightening for people to get into your life that much, but I don't have anything to hide," Stritch told Playbill.com in an earlier interview about the film project. "So, I'm open. There's no point in doing a documentary unless you absolutely deliver the 100 percent truth. Energy-wise it's very hard work."

When Stritch made her Town Hall debut in fall of 2011,  a host of Broadway leading ladies shared their own words about the remarkable performer. Click here to read Playbill.com's feature "Leading Ladies of Broadway Propose a Toast to Elaine Stritch."

Elaine Stritch received Tony and Emmy Awards for Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which traces a stellar career, which includes roles in composer-lyricist Sondheim's Company plus The Little Foxes, Bus Stop, A Delicate Balance, Sail Away and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Visit the Playbill Vault to explore more about Stritch's decades-spanning career on Broadway.

There is a $125 music charge for all performances. The Café Carlyle is located within The Carlyle Hotel (35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue). For reservations call (212) 744-1600. For more information visit TheCarlyle.