LILIANE MONTEVECCHI "Folies Bergeres" by Maury Yeston with "Nine" & "Grand Hotel" Costars

Описание: The Legendary Liliane Montevecchi sings "Folies Bergères" by Maury Yeston in “Kathi Moss’ Rama-Lama-Ding Dong Reunion”, Miss Montevecchi's signature song from her Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winning performance in “Nine”, and the entire company joins her for "And Life Goes On' by Robert Wright & George Forrest, from “Grand Hotel”, the musical for which she received her second Tony Award nomination. In a career that spanned nearly seventy years, Miss Montevecchi danced for Rolan Petit, had a ballet written for her by Orson Welles and designed for her by Picasso, was painted by Salvador Dali, counted among her on screen leading men Elvis Presley in “King Creole”, Montgomery Clift & Marlon Brando in “The Young Lions”, Dan Dailey in “Meet Me in Las Vegas”, and Matthew McConaughey in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”. She starred in the “Folies Bergere” in Las Vegas and Paris and realized her greatest fame and the resurgence of her career when Tommy Tune cast her as Liliane Le Fleur, her Tony Award and Drama Desk winning role in “Nine”, and her Tony Award nominated role as Elizaveta Grushinskaya, the role immortalized on screen by Greta Gabo, in “Grand Hotel”. Her many honors also include being knighted as Dame Liliane Montevecchi by the Knights of Malta in 1985, The Columbus Citizens Foundation’s 1995 Woman of the Year Award, The 2009 Boys Towns of Italy Entertainer of the Year Award, she was honored by the Minister of Culture as the “Officer of Arts and Culture to France and the World at Large” in 2013, and she received The Ziegfeld Society of New York’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. Most recently Miss Montevecchi received critical acclaim for her final screen appearance as the aging actress Judith Joubert in Jerome Reybaud’s award winning 2016 film “4 Days in France” (“Jours de France”). The gala Actors Fund Benefit honoring Kathi Moss was Written & Directed by Laura Kenyon & Walter Willison with Musical Supervision by Steve Ross, Musical Direction by Daniel Sefik and Gregg Jarrett, Sound by Stuart J. Allyn, Lighting Design by John Demous, Art Design by Tom Hooper, Poster Design by Joseph Gerard, Kathi Moss' caricature by Ken Fallin, and Videography by Jonathan Frank. Produced by Paul f. Burchett, Ted Seifman and Nick Padgett. Starring cast members from “Nine”, “Grand Hotel” and “Grease”: Karen Akers, Mark Baker, Pat Birch, Coleen Dodson Baker, Jeanie Bowers, Shelly Burch, Catherine Campbell, Andrew Casses, Carole Demas, Ray Demattis, Michael Devries, Pierre Dulaine, Louise Ediken, Taina Elg, Josh Franklin, Ben George, Merwin Goldsmith, Julie J. Hafner, David Jackson, Ken Jennings Laura Kenyon Dorothy Kiara, Ilene Kristen, Liliane Montevecchi, Yvonne Marceau, Nancy McCall, Denise Nettleton Jacobs, Rita Rehn, Steve Ross, Dee Etta Rowe, Camille Saviola, Bob Stillman, Barbara Walsh, Alaina Warren-Zachary, David White, Patrick Wilcox, Walter Willison, Penny Worth, Maury Yeston.