Bebe Neuwirth: ?Something Primal About the Lights of the Theatre?
The scene in D.C. was intimate and unforgettable Monday night at Arena Stage’s Mead Center for American Theater as Tony and Emmy award winning Bebe Neuwirth took to the stage for a sold out one-night-only special performance. From her Broadway debut in A Chorus Line to Chicago, Cheers, Frasier, and now Madame Secretary, Neuwirth’s career has been distinguished in theatre, television and film. […]The post Bebe Neuwirth: “Something Primal About the Lights of the Theatre” appeared first on Pursuitist.
The scene in D.C. was intimate and unforgettable Monday night at Arena Stage’s Mead Center for American Theater as Tony and Emmy award winning Bebe Neuwirth took to the stage for a sold out one-night-only special performance.From her Broadway debut in A Chorus Line to Chicago, Cheers, Frasier, and now Madame Secretary, Neuwirth’s career has been distinguished in theatre, television and film.  In this special performance, “Stories With Piano,” she and accompanist Scott Cady performed a collection of musical tales.In between cabaret-style sets Neuwirth spoke about the importance of art, and how the theater relates to our most basic nature:“The importance of the arts is beyond words…  It seems to me that our show is actually fitting here, as we celebrate the Arena Stage, because my feeling and theory is that the stage and the theatre is our tribal fire. It’s where we come to tell stories, and it...
The scene in D.C. was intimate and unforgettable Monday night at Arena Stage’s Mead Center for American Theater as Tony and Emmy award winning Bebe Neuwirth took to the stage for a sold out one-night-only special performance.From her Broadway debut in A Chorus Line to Chicago, Cheers, Frasier, and now Madame Secretary, Neuwirth’s career has been distinguished in theatre, television and film.  In this special performance, “Stories With Piano,” she and accompanist Scott Cady performed a collection of musical tales.In between cabaret-style sets Neuwirth spoke about the importance of art, and how the theater relates to our most basic nature:“The importance of the arts is beyond words…  It seems to me that our show is actually fitting here, as we celebrate the Arena Stage, because my feeling and theory is that the stage and the theatre is our tribal fire. It’s where we come to tell stories, and it...
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