Kitty Carlisle tribute in NYC

[Matt Ottinger]

The Metropolitan Opera Guild is paying tribute to Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart in what's being described as "a gala evening of live entertainment and rare film and video excerpts".  The event is November 21st at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.

The Honorary Benefit Committee is made up of a lot of the usual NYC social and political circle, plus several names that many in OUR crowd would think of as TTTT personalities.  Polly Bergen, Orson Bean, Tom Poston, even early panelist (and pilot host) Mike Wallace will be there.

More info at www.metguild.org

[inturnaround]

Kitty is on the Cal Thomas show on Fox News Channel between now and 11:30 plugging her new show and talking about her life.

[uncamark]

She also appeared last week at the NYC night club Feinstein's (run by the singer, pianist and Gershwin scholar Michael Feinstein).  Here's Kitty's bio page from the Feinstein's web site.

And here's a NY Times review of her performance at Feinstein's.  (Registration required.)  Fair use quote from reviewer Stephen Holden:

"In remarkably sturdy voice for a performer her age, she has clearly made a pact with the angels, whose promise of a charmed life has been kept. Her one-woman show, which concludes a three-night engagement at Feinstein's at the Regency this evening, is a seamless weave of popular standards strung with gentle anecdotes about many of the theater artists she knew before, during and after her marriage to the playwright and director Moss Hart, who died in 1961."

Ya gotta love it.  If only we could all get to be her age in as good a shape as she is.