Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle

[BwayBaby18]

Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#1

Posted: 7/25/07 at 12:19am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/109797.html

i'm excited.

[ljay889]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#2

Posted: 7/25/07 at 12:23am

YAY. I wonder how much tickets will be? Will they be like regular Broadway prices? Or does the Carlyle have special prices? Because I remember some of her engagements being pretty expensive there.

[BwayBaby18]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#2

Posted: 7/25/07 at 12:27am

Eartha Kitt is $85 and $125 on weeknights; and $95 and 150 on weekends
Judy Collins is $125 or $175
Steve Tyrell goes between $95 to $185

so i am guessing it will be pricey.

[ljay889]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#3

Posted: 7/25/07 at 12:35am

[uncageg]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#4

Posted: 7/25/07 at 1:10am

I am flying in for this. I missed it on Broadway and I really don't want to miss out on seeing her this time.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

Updated On: 7/25/07 at 01:10 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#5

Posted: 7/25/07 at 6:21am

I plan on seeing this as well. Why does it have to be so darn expensive though?

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[Lm4dham052]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#6

Posted: 7/25/07 at 8:14am

I want to go...but seriously why are tickets that expensive??

"I used to want to change the world, now i just want to leave the room with a little bit of dignity"

[madbrian]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#7

Posted: 7/25/07 at 9:46am

As you can tell from my avatar, I am a huge fan. However, depending on the prices, I don't know if I'll go. I did get to see the show during the Broadway run, so if the prices are steep (as they likely will be) I'll probably skip it. Also, keep in mind that sometimes the Carlyle requires that dinner be purchased along with the show. Don't know if that will be the case with Stritch, but you should check before making your purchase.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[CapnHook]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#8

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:24am

I'm flying in for this, too!!!!

AT LAST! To see Miss Stritch LIVE! And in AT LIBERTY!!! *faints*

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[best12bars]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#9

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:28am

Jesus, I don't know how anybody can afford to see anything anymore.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[crushgroove]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#10

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:34am

I am totally saving up for this...she is an amazing talent and I own the DVD...but there is something to be said to seeing her perform live...she's a legend...Dammit!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#11

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:43am

I just called the Carlyle.

The show will run Tuesdays through Saturdays from 1/1 to 1/19.

Tickets are $125 per person plus dinner. There is no dinner minimum, but some sort of dinner must be purchased.

Dinner times are 6:30pm or 7:00pm.

The performance begins at 8:00pm.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#12

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:48am

So with tax and tip (I can only imagine their menu prices are quite high), expect the evening to cost at least $175.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[scot]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#13

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:50am

I saw this show in NY and
then on tour in Dallas. Got
the DVD and I watch it all
the time. If the Cafe Carlyle
doesn't have a "dinner required"
with this $125, I may try to
catch Stritch again. Love, love,
love this show!

Scot
Updated On: 7/25/07 at 10:50 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#14

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:53am

Dinner is required.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[PalJoey]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#15

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:55am

You can sit at the bar instead of the table, and nurse an expensive drink or two. It's cheaper, and the view from the bar is perfect.

But however you slice it, an evening at the Carlyle is what Irving Berlin meant by "Slumming on Park Avenue."

[madbrian]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#16

Posted: 7/25/07 at 11:01am

For those who haven't been fortunate enough to see this show off-Broadway, on Broadway, at the West End, or on tour, I highly recommend it. It is far removed from what one would typically expect from a one-woman retrospective show. The information indicates that it will be the full At Liberty show, which means she'll be singing 15+ songs, five times a week, and she'll be a couple of weeks shy of her 83rd birthday.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[ljay889]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#17

Posted: 7/25/07 at 11:10am

My ass can't afford that..
I'll just watch my DVD.
Hopefully someday I can see her live.

[instant karma]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#18

Posted: 7/25/07 at 1:52pm

So where can you buy tickets to this? Are they on sale yet?

[BwayBaby18]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#19

Posted: 7/25/07 at 3:18pm

Hopefully i can go on the second... because starting the third i will be out of the country for the rest of the run....

[madbrian]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#20

Posted: 7/25/07 at 3:21pm

The link to the Carlyle entertainment page on their website is below. They don't list Stritch yet, but even for the listed chows, it doesn't seem like there is online ticketing. I suggest you call the number at the bottom of the webpage.

http://www.thecarlyle.com/entertainment.cfm

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[scot]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#21

Posted: 7/25/07 at 4:24pm

When I saw Betty Buckley at
the Cafe Carlyle, we just called
and made reservations. There are
no tickets per-say.

Scot

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#22

Posted: 7/26/07 at 2:51am

I'm sorry, I would love to see Stritch live but $125 plus dinner?! I'll just pop in my DVD and order Chinese.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[sidneybruhl]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#23

Posted: 7/26/07 at 6:43am

A friend and I saw Stritch at the Carlyle back in January of 2006. With dinner and tip, our evening out was very close to $600. I thought it was worth every penny, plus I met Ms. Stritch briefly. I have to admit that I'm tempted to plan a trip to NYC in January just to see Stritch again.
Updated On: 7/26/07 at 06:43 AM

[RockabyeHamlet]

re: Elaine Stritch At Liberty - at Carlyle#24

Posted: 7/26/07 at 12:15pm

"I'm sorry, I would love to see Stritch live but $125 plus dinner?! I'll just pop in my DVD and order Chinese."

-Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone!

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