KITTY CARLISLE 96th Birthday show at El Portal Theater.- Page 3

[justme2]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 9:41pm

Curtain is 8pm in SF..I checked two different dates next week just to be sure.

So...LA must be special!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 10:01pm

Hart was a vital force during her decades long tenure at New York State Council on the Arts and an important figure to up-and-coming theatre professionals here. Her influence was crucial here and for the rest of the country. She was never a figurehead or just some society lady randomly doling out money, but made a point to travel extensively to actually see and support the groups that she found promising or important well into her 80s. I have heard many stories of that woman driving through snowstorms to make a curtain somewhere in the hinterlands and she was known for fighting like a tiger to get funding for the companies she believed in and there are several artists who went on to be important in part due to her early support.

The epitome of class and hard work, all theatre fans owe her a debt of gratitude.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 10:10pm

Here, Here! I can't wait to hear her in the York Room here in SF.

Have you read her memoir "Kitty", Margo?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 10:12pm

I haven't, though I'd like to sometime. She's had a long and fascinating life, though I imagine she's entirely too classy to tell all of her best stories (especially about her bisexual husband Moss Hart).

[justme2]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 10:16pm

Yes, she doesn't mention any of that in "Kitty", and Moss, of course, is very quiet about it in "Act One". Of all the biographies I've read, "Act One" bored me to tears. I expected great stories from Hart, especially after reading a book about Lerner and Lowe bringing "My Fair Lady" to life on stage and screen (can't recall the title). The stories they told about Hart made me purchase "Act One".

[DAME]

Posted: 1/7/06 at 10:36pm

Your rigt. "Act One" was so dull.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 3:45am

dg.. you going?

[DG]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 3:47am

I'm going to be in Palm Springs the seekend BEFORE the event, so I doubt I'll go back out for this

[DAME]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 3:50am

We are just going to go for the show and stay over night. I have to be back early Sunday morning.

[DG]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 3:54am

"What I did for love . . . "

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 11:20am

hmmmm, I may consider this

[DAME]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 12:58pm

Tickets are gone.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/8/06 at 2:57pm

then again, I may not!

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 1:49pm

Kitty opens tonight in San Francisco -

New York -- "I don't have Modiglianis, but I do have these," Kitty Carlisle Hart says, gesturing to a series of oil paintings adorning the hallway of her elegant Upper East Side apartment. To her, they are cherished gifts created by friends -- individuals who happen to loom large in music and theater lore: Irving Berlin, Harpo Marx, Noel Coward and George Gershwin. To a visitor, these paintings -- and her collection of photographs, press clippings, Broadway posters, and other memorabilia -- are manifestations of what has been an extraordinary life.

It's no surprise that this grand dame of stage and screen has many tales to tell. Beginning tonight through Sunday, she'll share songs and anecdotes at the Empire Plush Room. Called "In Honor of Her 95th Birthday," the evening is dedicated to those she affectionately dubs her "old friends" and "the giants of the American musical theater": Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Rogers and Hammerstein, and Lerner and Loewe among them -- not to mention onetime beau George Gershwin, who used to take her dancing.

For an hourlong conversation in her home, Hart was impeccably turned out in a vibrant candy-apple colored dress, double strand pearls, a bejeweled broach and smart black heels that displayed what gossip columnist Liz Smith has called the best pair of legs in New York. Sitting in the beautifully appointed apartment where she has lived for more than four decades, she was every inch the gracious figure whose name is a staple in society columns. She frequents cultural events and benefits, including one she hosted last fall to help her hometown of New Orleans.


Here's to life

[fflagg]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 3:41pm

Yeah it does. If you prefer crap like RENT and B-divas like Idina and Kristin, go back to jail and take back your $200.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 6:04pm

fflag...what is your post responding to? Am I missing a post in this thread?

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 6:11pm

Justme - I thought the same thing when I read fflagg's post but I think it's in answer to Dames very first post of "This sounds interesting". LOL.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 6:35pm

thank god I wan't the only one thrown by it! I kept letting it go, waiting for another response, but finally couldn't take it anymore and had to ask!!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 9:01pm

I had the pleasure of meeting Kitty Carlisle Hart backstage at Feinstein's when the glorious Carol Channing was appearing in THE FIRST 80 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST. Miss Hart was absolutely charming and a delightful lady to chat with. I can't believe she's 95.

[DAME]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 9:10pm

I just came back from seeing Kitty at El Portal. I hope I am as fabulous as she when I am her age. Great afternoon.

kitty

Updated On: 8/6/06 at 09:10 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:26pm

bump

[DAME]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 1:15pm

No one else was there? I did spot that Steve guy that used to post here.

[SideShowMan]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:47pm

Kitty is coming back to Feinsteins in September, and I cant talk anyone I know into going. Anyone want to put a group together?