Beginning on Monday, April 11 at 7:00 PM, Tony Award-winner Debbie Gravitte will present a special residency, Debbie Plus One, at Birdland. The diva has been in theater long enough to have made some very special friends, as she welcomes Stephen Schwartz (April 11), Marc Shaiman (May 9) and Harvey Fierstein (September 12) for three separate evenings full of songs, stories and surprises.
Gravitte, in addition to her Tony Award is also a Grammy Award-winner and Emmy nominee. She made her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, and went on to appear in Perfectly Frank, Blues in the Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Chicago, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway and Les Misérables. She has appeared in three shows for City Center Encores!: Carnival, The Boys From Syracuse and Tenderloin. Television viewers would have see her on the CBS series “Trial and Error,” NBC’s “Pursuit of Happiness,” and in several specials for PBS, including “Live from the Kennedy Center,” “The Boston Pops Celebrate Bernstein” for Great Performances and Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Celebration from Carnegie Hall.
Gravitte has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York’s Rainbow & Stars and 54 Below, to London’s Pizza on the Park to Atlantic City with Jay Leno, Harry Anderson and the legendary George Burns. She has also sung with over 175 orchestras around the world including The Boston Pops, the Chinese Philharmonic with Lang Lang, Philly Pops, National Symphony, The New York Pops, Altanta Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony and more. She has four solo albums, including Big Band Broadway, Defying Gravity, The MGM Album and Part of Your World: The Music of Alan Menken.
There is a $40 music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call 212-581-3080 or visit www.BirdlandJazz.com
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
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