Legendary Broadway star Elaine Stritch will be the next performer to step into the guest-star spot at Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell. On June 26, for one-night-only, the Tony Award-winning actress take on the role of "Career." Stritch will succeed TV and film star Michelle Trachtenberg June 19-24.
Like Spalding Gray, Stritch has demonstrated that she feels comfortable with monologues and solo shows. She won a Tony for her Broadway stage memoir Elaine Stritch at Liberty and starred on Broadway in Company, The Little Foxes, Bus Stop, A Delicate Balance, Sail Away and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stritch also received an Emmy Award for the television broadcast of At Liberty. Her film credits include A Farewell to Arms, Providence, Cocoon: The Return, September, Out to Sea, Krippendorf's Tribe, An Unexpected Wife, Small Time Crooks, Autumn in New York and Monster-In-Law.
For this special, one-night-only performance, Stritch joins original cast members Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman and Frank Wood. The current cast also includes Darnell Williams. Richard Kind, Fisher Stevens, Estelle Parsons, Josh Lucas, Rachel Dratch, Bruce Vilanch, Valerie Smaldone, Dylan Walsh, Charles Busch, Whoopi Goldberg, David Boreanaz and Christopher Gorham have all filled the guest actor position.