Ruth Leon recommends… American Songbook at NJPAC – Christine Ebersole and Seth Rudetsky
Ruth Leon recommendsAmerican Songbook at NJPAC – Christine Ebersole and Seth Rudetsky
Here’s a casual live show from New Jersey Performing Arts Center which is fun to watch. Radio Host Seth Rudetsky and Broadway leading lady Christine Ebersole team up for an entertaining evening of banter and songs relating to Ebersole’s career and their mutual love of the Great White Way.
Christine Ebersole starred in the Broadway musicals 42nd Street and Grey Gardens, winning a Tony Award for each. In addition to her theatre work she’s an outstanding cabaret and concert singer in venues both large and small such as the Cinegrill in Hollywood and the Café Carlyle in New York, winning the 2010 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist in a Major Engagement for her Café Carlyle cabaret.
Seth Rudetsky is an American musician, actor, writer and popular radio host with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Broadway lore an theatre history.
Songs include Al Dubin and Harry Warren’s “Lullaby of Broadway“; Lerner and Loewe’s “Simple Joys of Maidenhood” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns“.
Broadway needs more Christine Ebersole!
I remember Christine Ebersole from “Ryan’s Hope” TV show in the late 1970s. It was amazing watching her become a star on Broadway.