Tony Award-Winner Melba Moore to Make Her Café Carlyle Debut- “Forever Moore” – (April 26 – May 7)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
TONY AWARD WINNER
MELBA MOORE
TO MAKE CAFÉ CARLYLE DEBUT
“FOREVER MOORE”
LEVI BARCOURT, MUSICAL DIRECTOR
EXCLUSIVE TWO-WEEK ENGAGEMENT
APRIL 26 – MAY 7
New York, NY (4/8/11) – The Carlyle Hotel (Erich Steinbock, Managing Director) is pleased to welcome Tony Award-winner (Purlie) Melba Moore to the legendary Café Carlyle in her debut engagement. Beginning Tuesday, April 26 (and playing through Saturday, May 7), Ms. Moore will present a program entitled Forever Moore, in which the 4-time Grammy Award nominee will reach into the Great American Songbook for some early influences, pass through her hit-making 70’s (she was a “Best New Artist” Grammy nominee in 1971) and then open it up with a treasure trove of seminal R&B touchstones, culminating with her current hit “Love Is.” Ms. Moore will also pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and Aretha Franklin, the sophisticated ladies whose profound influences on her art and career she both acknowledges and celebrates. She will be accompanied by a band led by her musical director Levi Barcourt.
The Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle Hotel – 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue.
Melba Moore: “Forever Moore” plays Tuesdays through Fridays at 8:45PM and Saturdays at 8:45PM and 10:45PM. There is a $55 music charge ($40, bar) for the Tuesday-Thursday performances and a $65 music charge ($40, bar) for the Friday and Saturday* performances. *The music charge is $55 for the 10:45PM on Saturday. Dinner (required) is served from 6:30PM. For reservations please call 212-744-1600. For additional information, visit www.thecarlyle.com.
Biography
Melba Moore received a Tony Award in 1970 for her portrayal of Lutiebelle in Purlie. She also starred on Broadway in Les Miserables (Fantine), with Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu, and in the original cast of Hair in 1967.
Among her notable recordings are “This Is It” in 1976 (Billboard Hot 100 Top 20), “Lean on Me,” also 1976 (her third Grammy nomination), and “You Stepped Into My Life,” released in 1979 on Epic Records, hitting the R&B Top 20. From the 80’s she had “Love’s Comin’ at Ya” on Capitol Records (which reached the Top 5 on the R&B charts), and the dance single “Read My Lips” which earned Moore her fourth Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. “A Little Bit More,” with Freddie Jackson in 1986, was her first #1 hit. Her second was “Falling” the following year. Her “Lift Every Voice and Sing” on the album Soul Exposed — with the voices of Stevie Wonder, Freddie Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker and Stephanie Mills — was inducted into the Library of Congress, and is often referred to as the Negro National Anthem. In 2009 she released “The Gift of Love,” duets with Phil Perry, on Shanachie Records.
In addition to a short-lived television variety show in the 70’s with Clifton Davis, Moore starred in her own series, “Melba,” which premiered on CBS in 1986.