Some gorge photos of David at the Home Made Theater benefit in his hometown at the weekend. (Pics stolen from footlightsmedia!) Click ‘Read the rest of this entry’ for more!
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Here’s another neat hometown interview with David, this time by the Albany Times Union. He shares some thoughts on La Bete and his dinner plans with Kelsey Grammer!
David Hyde Pierce, best-known for his role as Niles Crane on the TV sitcom Frasier, will return to his hometown, Saratoga Springs, to appear at a benefit Saturday for Home Made Theater. Born in Albany, Pierce grew up in Saratoga Springs, where his father and his father before him lived. The family lived at Fifth and East avenues in the large white house with columns, and Pierce attended Caroline Street Elementary, the former junior high school on Lake Avenue (now Lake Avenue Elementary) and Saratoga Springs High School.
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Here’s a nice piece in The Saratogian ahead of this weekend’s fundraiser for the Home Made Theater in David’s hometown, Saratoga Springs.
Star of stage and television, David Hyde Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs with at least two generations of acting talent contributing to his genes. The Tony Award-winning actor (Curtains, Spamalot) who played the neurotic and loveable Dr Niles Crane in the hit television sitcom Frasier, will lend his support to Home Made Theater as its special guest at the 25th anniversary Spring Benefit on Saturday, March 27.
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David is really becoming the go-to guy for concerts celebrating theatrical legends – first Kander and now Sondheim! David hosted Sondheim’s two birthday concerts at the New York Philharmonic earlier this week, and also sang ‘Beautiful Girls’ from Follies (with Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch, Donna Murphy and Marin Mazzie, as you can see from the photo). Here’s the New York Times‘s glowing review:
From Broadway’s prodigious boy wonder to its beloved aging monarch: for Stephen Sondheim, whose forthcoming 80th birthday on March 22 was celebrated in a thrilling concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday evening, it must have seemed like a hop, skip and a jump from one to the other. Inside the hall, where the mood was more exhilarated than elegiac, an unspoken question hung in the air: where did all that time go?
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David’s donning his journo hat in the latest issue of Vanity Fair! He previews his friend Michael Feinstein’s latest double act: All About Me, with Dame Edna. Check it out:
When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me … Something’s got to give, and it’s probably going to be the walls of the newly renovated Henry Miller’s Theatre. Through a clerical error, Michael Feinstein, the Ambassador of the American Songbook (as well as the Impresario of Feinstein’s at Loews Regency), and Dame Edna Everage, the Down Under Secretary of Whoopee, have been booked into the same Broadway theater, for a limited run opening March 18, to perform their respective one-person shows. This spectacle, entitled All About Me, will be a clash of the titans — one a crazed, flower-flinging diva, the other a large Australian woman. Not since Glenn Gould met Leonard Bernstein and the New York Phil has there been such a potential conflagration, and, to add gasoline to the fire, the producers have brought in director Casey Nicholaw, who is insane, and the writer Christopher Durang, who is insaner. This may be the end of theater as we know it, but what a way to go.
David and Soleil Moon Frye (AKA Punky Brewster) were in Washington DC last weekend for the Alzheimer’s Association’s national gala. They recorded their message on this sunny, shaky vid:
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Here’s some footage of David singing (and dancing! Good Lord) at the Kander gala the other night. The song he’s performing is ‘Ten Percent’ which was cut from Chicago. Hey Velma, the worm is here!
Here’s a piece from the wonderful New York magazine about Monday’s gala honouring John Kander, hosted by David. Sounds like it was a great show! Also – Chita Rivera is 77?!
To any die-hard theater geek, a show that begins with Joel Grey and ends with Liza Minnelli ranks as a good one — so well done, Monday night’s benefit for the Vineyard Theatre! The evening, honoring John Kander (of legendary Broadway songwriting duo Kander and Ebb) was hosted by a dependably droll David Hyde Pierce, who told bad theater jokes (“I’m hosting, so it’s a gay-la”; “We wanted to capture the perfect tenor for this evening — and we did, he’s waiting off stage”) and gave a wonderfully deadpan rendition of ‘Ten Percent’, a lost Chicago ode to theater agents.
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Here are some great shots of David attending the Vineyard Theatre’s John Kander tribute last night. He was host of the evening, which included performances from Chita Rivera, most of the Curtains cast and loads more. Click ‘Read the rest of this entry’ for more!
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