“It was the music,” she says when I ask about the show’s staying power in a telephone interview from New York.
On the legendary run of that revival - still playing on Broadway after 22 years - she says she knew it was something special from its first incarnation as a one-week run as part of the Broadway Encores! concert series. The revue will include songs from an earlier tribute show to composer Kurt Weill, some Tom Waits, a little Edith Piaf, some Sondheim and even a story-song from the Chicago composing team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (“Ring Those Bells”). The show will play the Ridgefield Playhouse Nov. Her new show - Stories and Songs with Piano with accompanist Scott Cady -will feature a collection of musical tales with strong narratives and compelling characters at the core. Instead, the actor - perhaps best known for her TV roles in Madame Secretary and as Lilith Sternin in Cheers and Frasier - will be in storyteller mode.
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