S: Is for Stritch at the Carlyle

The Carlyle Hotel, announced the return of resident leading lady, Elaine Stritch, to the Café Carlyle in an all-new show: “At Home At The Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin’ Sondheim. . . One Song At A Time.” The strictly limited engagement will play the month of January 2010, at the legendary nightspot, with opening night set for Tuesday, January 5 (through January 30).

The iconic musical theater careers of Ms. Stritch and Stephen Sondheim are inextricably linked, and this new show is the culmination of a personal and professional relationship that has spanned the better part of four decades. In “At Home At The Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin’ Sondheim. . . One Song At A Time,” Ms. Stritch (with Rob Bowman, Music Director) will perform the music of Mr. Sondheim, orchestrated by Tony, Oscar, Grammy and Emmy Award-winner Jonathan Tunick.

“At Home At The Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin’ Sondheim. . . One Song At A Time” will play Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:45 p.m. There is a $125 music charge for all performances. Dinner is required for all shows. There will be dinner seating’s at 6:00pm, 6:30pm and 7:00pm. The Café Carlyle is located within The Carlyle Hotel (35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue).

Stritch's Broadway credits include Angel in the Wings, Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Bus Stop, Goldilocks, Sail Away (which she performed in both New York and London), a concert at Carnegie Hall to celebrate Noel Coward’s centennial), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (following Uta Hagen in the role of Martha), Company and Showboat. Other stage credits include the concert version of both Follies and Company at Lincoln Center and her appearance in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters with Jason Robards. Ms. Stritch made her film debut in the 1957 remake of “A Farewell To Arms.” Today's audiences remember her for Monster-in-Law” with Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez, and “Romance and Cigarettes,” with James Gandolfini and Susan Sarandon. Ms. Stritch’s television credits include “The Cosby Show,” “3rd Rock from the Sun,” “Soul Man,” and “30 Rock,” for which she has received a 2007 Emmy Award for her guest starring role as Colleen, Jack’s (Alec Baldwin) mother. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in “An Inconvenient Woman,” written by Dominick Dunne and won an Emmy for her recurring role on “Law & Order.” Ms. Stritch won a Tony Award and two Drama Desk Awards for the Broadway production of Elaine Stritch At Liberty and a 2004 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program.” In 2005, Elaine made her New York cabaret debut with her critically-acclaimed show “Elaine Stritch: At Home at the Carlyle” and returned the following year with an all new program entitled “Elaine Stritch: At Home at the Carlyle…Again.”