Betty Buckley in BROADWAY BY REQUEST with Seth Rudetsky April 9, 2011

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents legendary Broadway performer Betty Buckley in her show "Broadway by Request", featuring Seth Rudetsky at the piano, on Saturday April 9, 2011 at 8pm. In "Broadway by Request", Ms. Buckley performs selected audience favorites from her illustrious Broadway career in landmark musicals. The performance will be followed by an exclusive VIP reception, where select guests will have the opportunity to meet Ms. Buckley as she is presented with Brooklyn Center’s 2011 Cultural Leadership Award.

Betty Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Cats". She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in "Triumph of Love", and an Olivier Award nomination for her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Sunset Boulevard", which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include "1776", "Pippin", "Song and Dance", "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and "Carrie". Off-Broadway credits include "White’s Lies", Lincoln Center’s "Elegies", the original NYSF production of "…Edwin Drood", "The Eros Trilogy" and "Juno Swans". Regional credits include "Gypsy", "Threepenny Opera", "Camino Real" and "Buffalo Gal". She starred in the London production of "Promises, Promises".
She co-starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s "The Happening", released in June 2008. Other films include her debut in Brian de Palma’s screen version of Stephen King’s "Carrie", Bruce Beresford’s "Tender Mercies", Roman Polanski’s "Frantic", Woody Allen’s "Another Woman" and Lawrence Kasden’s "Wyatt Earp".

On television, Buckley appeared in “The Pacific” for HBO and appeared on the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors. She has also starred for three seasons in the HBO series “Oz” and as Abby Bradford in the hit series “Eight is Enough.” She has appeared as a guest star in numerous television series, miniseries and films for television including “Evergreen,” “Roses for the Rich,” the CBS series “Without a Trace” and “Law & Order: SVU” for NBC.

Buckley has recorded 12 CDs, among them "Bootleg: Boardmixes from the Road", "Quintessence" and "Betty Buckley 1967" and the Grammy nominated "Stars and the Moon, Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar". She received her second Grammy nomination for the audio book "The Diaries of Adam and Eve".
For over thirty-eight years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation, giving workshops in Manhattan and various universities and performing arts conservatories around the country. She has been a faculty member in the theatre department of the University of Texas at Arlington, the Terry Schreiber Acting School in New York City and currently teaches in Fort Worth, TX.

In April of 2009, Ms. Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007.

Seth Rudetsky is the Broadway host, seven days a week, on Sirius Satellite Radio. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including "Ragtime", "Les Miserables" and "Phantom of the Opera".  He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including "Dreamgirls" with Audra MacDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and "Hair" with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing “Magic to Do” in a devastating unitard) in "The Ritz" directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater.  Off-Broadway he wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed "Rhapsody in Seth" (directed by Peter Flynn) at the Actors Playhouse and has also appeared on television on "Law and Order Criminal Intent" and had a recurring role on "All My Children". As an author, he penned the books "The Q Guide to Broadway", now in its third printing, and the recently published "Broadway Nights", which was just released as an audio book on audible.com featuring Andrea Martin, Jonathan Groff and Kristin Chenoweth. Recently he was the vocal coach on MTV’s "Legally Blonde" reality show and he currently writes a weekly column on Playbill.com.

A portion of every ticket sold goes to support Brooklyn Center’s SchoolTime series of live performances. One of the largest arts education programs in the borough, SchoolTime annually serves 46,000 schoolchildren from over 300 schools.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts’ 2010-2011 Gala is sponsored, in part, by Con Edison.

Official Website: http://www.brooklyncenteronline.org/downloads/PR_BettyBuckley.pdf