BETTY BUCKLEY CELEBRATES CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS IN "JOURNEY"

FEINSTEIN'S at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue, NYC - 1-212-339-4095 - http://www.feinsteinsattheregency.com/) will present the return engagement of Tony Award winning singer and actress Betty Buckley from October 28th through November 8th. Her new show "Journey" will feature a mix of traditional and new standards by contemporary composers including Sting, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Michel LeGrand, Joni Mitchell, Richard Thompson, Leonard Cohen, Michael McDonald and Bob Seger. The show will play the following schedule: Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30 pm with late shows on Friday and Saturday at 11:00 pm. All shows have a $60 cover and $30 minimum. Jackets are suggested, but not required.

Ms. Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as "Grizabella" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, a Tony Award nomination for her performance as "Hesione" in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier nomination for her interpretation of "Norma Desmond" in Sunset Boulevard. Ms. Buckley has also starred in Gypsy, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, Bob Fosse's Pippin, and as "Edwin Drood" in the New York Shakespeare Festival's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In London, she starred in Promises, Promises; for which she received a nomination from the Evening Standard for Best Actress in a Musical. Ms. Buckley also starred Off-Broadway in A.R. Gurney's new play, Buffalo Gal, Nicky Silver's The Eros Trilogy and Second Stage's Juno's Swans. She has performed the role of "Pirate Jenny" in Three Penny Opera and starred as "Marguerite Gautier" in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real.

Her recent CD, "The Doorway," which included original songs and hymns, was released on Fynsworth Alley to critical acclaim. Ms. Buckley's "Stars and the Moon: Live at the Donmar" album, released on Concord Records, received a 2002 Grammy Award nomination. Ms. Buckley does extensive concretizing with her ensemble and has now completed eight CDs. Ms. Buckley's work on television has included such starring roles as "Abby Bradford" in the hit series "Eight is Enough" and "Suzanne Fitzgerald" in the HBO series "Oz." She received two Emmy Award nominations for the After-School Specials "Bobby and Sarah" and "Taking a Stand." She hosted the PBS special "The Women of Tin Pan Alley" and starred in the American Movie Classics' Emmy Award-winning series "Remember WENN." The Bravo network has aired a documentary about her life entitled "Betty Buckley In Concert and In Person."

 

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