Stritchy!

This weekend I finally saw the Tony Award winning Elaine Stritch at Liberty, her one woman show. The show was at the Shaw Theatre, a nice sized and relatively new venue (read great air conditioning).

The show was great fun and this 82 year old woman is still a show stopper. Not so much dancing anymore - a little soft shoe - but belting out a series of tunes and projecting to the audience, it was amazing to see. She only took a 20 minute breakf over two-and-a-half hours.

As with most well constructed and performed works the story is moving, even if you aren't sure who Elaine Stritch is because her experiences transcends to everyone. The simplicity of Ms. Stritch, her chair and the six piece band, which seemed to be having loads of fun, made it all about the memories in her head as well as yours.

I also learned about her time in London. I hadn't realized she had spent so much time here and had actually been a TV sitcom star as well as a stage star.

The show is out on DVD, I'm pretty sure I saw it on HBO a few years back, but it was worth repeating live.