Story Songs

Story Songs

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Tony Award-winning Broadway legend BETTY BUCKLEY co-starring in the recent smash hit M. Night<br>Shayamalan film Split opposite James McAvoy will come to the New York area this season for four<br>appearances, including for two concerts in March to preview her new album Story Songs from Palmetto<br>Records, to be released on Friday, April 7. Buckley also will be teaching a five-day performance<br>workshop mid-March in New York.<br> <br>For her Story Songs concerts, Buckley will be joined by renowned multi-Grammy nominated jazz pianist<br>Christian Jacob, her longtime Musical Director and arranger. A celebrated interpreter with an eclectic<br>taste for music from all genres, Buckley will share a collection of songs that range from Radiohead to theater<br>greats Stephen Schwartz and Jason Robert Brown. The evening will also include work by the next<br>generation of exciting young theater composers, such as Joe Iconis.<br>Split, which has been the #1 Movie in America for the six weeks since its January premiere, co-stars<br>Buckley as McAvoy s psychologist, Dr. Fletcher. She was hailed as wonderful by The New York<br>Times, stellar by Rolling Stone, mesmerizing by The Los Angeles Times, and excellent by London<br>Express, in addition to other raves.<br> <br>The two-disc live album Story Songs is based on the show of the same name that she debuted at Joe s Pub<br>at The Public Theater this past September. The New York Times praised Story Songs as her stunning new<br>show, arguably the strongest of her career. Ms. Buckley gave everything she<br>sang the shape and depth of a personal confession. When she took the program to the Bay Area later in the<br>fall, she was called a vocal wonder by the San Francisco Chronicle.<br>BETTY BUCKLEY, in an award-winning career that has encompassed TV, film, stage and concert work<br>around the globe, is probably best known as one of theater s most respected and legendary leading ladies.<br>She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber s Cats.<br>Buckley received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as<br>Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically-acclaimed interpretation of<br>Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber s Sunset Boulevard, which she<br>repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.