Musical Monday with Tony Award Winner Betty Buckley

7:30 pm Cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres
8:30 pm Performance followed by dessert reception with Betty

Through her dazzling work in such musicals as Cats, 1776, Carrie, Song & Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Pippin, Tony Award winner Betty Buckley is one of a small handful of performers synonymous with Broadway.

With her recent successes as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and as Mama Rose in Gypsy, Buckley remains the quintessential leading lady of the American musical theatre.

For anyone who has ever heard Buckley sing, it is evident she possesses one of the finest, and perhaps the most unique, instruments in the musical theatre: a voice of supple steel, capable of piercing the soul with either its razor-edged belt or ethereal upper register.

And it is a voice that has been stopping the hearts of concert and theatre goers for years. "Buckley has a real Broadway voice," New York Daily News critic Howard Kissel elaborates, "which has in recent years, become oddly a rare commodity. A Broadway voice has a penetrating quality that belongs to the theatre and projects the energy of the city itself."

-- by Andrew Gans