MUSIC

Tony Award winning performers Christine Ebersole and James Naughton bring their individual - and collective - talents to The Grand for an unbeatable performance Friday, January 9, 2009, at 8 pm.

Sponsored in part by Rudy & Paco’s Restaurant and Bar, they’ll wow you with stunning show tunes like you’ve never heard them before.

Christine Ebersole is one of the most popular musical stars on “The Great White Way,” and this television, film, and stage actress is coming off her recent show-stopping performance in the Broadway musical Grey Gardens.

While Grey Gardens was in its Off Broadway run, she won the Outer Critics Circle Award, The Obie Award and Drama Desk Award for “Best Actress in a Musical” and was given a special citation from the New York Drama Critics and Drama League for “Performance of the Year.”

Ebersole was also awarded a Tony for “Best Leading Actress in a Musical” for her role, as well.

Says Opera News, “Ebersole has one of the best singing voices of any woman on Broadway today.”

“Nice guys finish last” or so the saying goes. But James Naughton seems to be destined to prove that there is at least one exception to this rule: He is one nice guy who has achieved success in a business that can be harsh, at best, to those who ply it.

Naughton is known for his tremendous showmanship in Broadway productions City of Angels and Chicago, as well as films The Good Mother and The First Wives Club, and more recently for his cabaret act offering everything from classics to country.

“It takes an exceptional voice to even begin to pull off what Mr. Naughton accomplishes with such studied effortlessness: evoking a relaxed super-virility by exploiting the lowest register of his voice,” says The New York Times.

Don’t miss this incredible Broadway “dream team” performance at The Grand!