Ebersole and Davie: together again in APPLAUSE!

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:13pm

At Seth's CHATTERBOX tonight, Christine Ebersole (a knockout in black velvet pants and jacket, her hair long and pale blond) told the sold-out and wildly enthusiastic crowd that Erin Davie will be Eve Harrington to her Margo Channing in Encore's APPLAUSE. Fan-tastic news!

A special guest was GREY GARDENS composer Scott Frankel (who skipped out a quarter of the way through to attend the opening of THE LITTLE MERMAID). Scott played the piano for Christine, who sang "Around the World". Gorgeous, as usual.

A particularly great CHATTERBOX!!

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:16pm

That is awesome!!

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:25pm

That's great!

This is going to be amazing.

[jv92]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:27pm

There is a god. Now I really can't wait to see this!

Off topic, but- I wonder what Scott thought of Mermaid. In my opinion, it wasn't Wright's best work. Hopefully he won't be as critical as some people are to their former collaborators. (cough-Arthur Laurents-cough).

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:30pm

Wow, great news! I'd see anything with those two again, I've never seen Applause.

[BJC899]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:41pm

That's fantastic! I'll be there!!

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:39pm

Amazing! SO excited.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:51pm

This has been known for months, yet still no official confirmation from Encores! or City Center.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 1:27am

Though somethinwicked had mentioned it in a previous thread before, a confirmation by Ebersole herself makes me even more excited than I was. I simply cannot wait to see Davie's "One Halloween." Glad I got tickets for this show trusting that they would get a fabulous Eve Harrington... glad they didn't disappoint. Now who will be lining up the rest of the cast? The show is less than a month away, why are they taking so long to announce the cast?

[jaimiecheno]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 1:40am

Mario Cantone and Kate Burton are also linked to the production.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 1:47am

Kate Burton?! Seriously? Why isn't she playing Margo? I have a crush on this woman. Is she really going to be in this show? Okay, now I'm REALLY glad I got my ticket, sad I didn't shell out the extra $25 for a decent mezannine seat though.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:12am

The complete cast for FOLLIES wasn't announced last year until Jan 18.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/105005.html

I guess it will be the same for APPLAUSE.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:17am

Ljay, I didn't go to the link but I'm positive that Donna Murphy, Christine Baranski and most of the principal casting was announced in November. I know because I bought my ticket the second the press release announcing Murphy's casting was out. Garber was one of the last to be announced. By this time they should have announced principal casting, or at least Davie.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:20am

Yes, principle casting for Follies was announced in November. But the complete cast wasn't announced until Jan 18. I agree, by this time principle casting for Applause should have been announced.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:28am

"or at least Davie."

Wasn't that jsut announced?..........

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:43am

Ebersole said it in an interview, as somethingwicked pointed out, there is no official press release from Encores! or City Center.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:48am

just ask rytoast

[CouldaWouldaShoulda]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:52am

To hear it from Ebersole makes this some of the best news I have heard in a while. I hope Cantone and Burton are in the production too. That would be amazing.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:59am

This makes me want to cry. I will be in the city from February 1-3. There's no way I can make a trip back in the same week. I will be excited (and a little bitter) to hear reviews.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 11:27am

I missed seeing Lauren Bacall in the original Broadway production, but caught her fabulous replacement Anne Baxter (the original film Eve) as Margo. SHe had a marvelously smoky singing voice and was this teeny-tiny thing. Penny Fuller was still a deliciously manipulative Eve.

Cantone will certainly be playing the Lee Roy Reams hairdresser role and Kate Burton the playwright's wife.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 1:03pm

That's probably right, philcrosby. Now I wonder who'll end up playing the Bonnie Franklin role.

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:01pm

I talked with Kate Burton and she confirmed that she is, in fact, playing the playwright's wife.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:54pm

That is luxury casting of the highest order -- what a treat!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:01pm

I didn't realize until I just looked it up that Sammy Williams was in the ensemble of OBC.

Phil, are you going?

[jaystarr]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:13pm

Wow ! That's really great news... I am soo happy that I decided to see this show ..my first ENCORES. I actually have the score and i listen to it all the time...

BTW- here's from YOUTUBE..
Lauren Bacall's I'm Alive number (gay bar scene in Greenwich village)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71dRwNTN69I
very rare footage of the TV special- that was not released- found this on YOUTUBe

J*
Updated On: 1/11/08 at 03:13 PM