Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway returns to the Metroplitan Room to celebrate the release of her album "Passage of Time." Callaway will perform a series of concerts, which began October 20th and runs through October 25th. The album, her first in 8 years, includes music by Stephen Sondheim, James Taylor, Rogers and Hammerstein, Maltby and Shire, Ahrens and Flaherty, Stephen Schwartz, and Carly Simon.
Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's short-lived but now famous Merrily We Roll Along. This began a long term professional relationship with Sondheim, as Callaway has performed in a number of live concerts in his honor and also played the role of Young Sally in the Lincoln Center concert production of Follies with Mandy Patinkin, Barbara Cook, George Hearn, Lee Remick, Carol Burnett, Elaine Stritch and the New York Philharmonic. Follies was recorded live and also filmed as a documentary. This recording is considered to be the definitive recording of the legendary Sondheim, Goldman, Prince collaboration. Additional stage credits include Lizzie in Baby (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), The Three Musketeers, The Spitfire Grill (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, Cats (musical), and Miss Saigon, for which she received another Tony Award nomination. Callaway also had her own children's television show for a local station in Boston during the 1980s. She left this series with WNEV-TV in order to begin rehearsals for Miss Saigon on Broadway.
Callaway has also provided the singing voices for a number of animated characters, including Kiara in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Princess Jasmine in The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Odette in The Swan Princess, and Anya/Anastasia in Anastasia. She has performed various cabaret acts at Joe's Pub, Rainbow & Stars, the Russian Tea Room, and Lincoln Center in New York City and the Donmar Warehouse in London, among other venues. Callaway's solo recordings include Anywhere I Wander, The Story Goes On, and The Beat Goes On.
The concerts will take place Wednesday through Sunday at 7:30pm. Performances will have a $30 cover and a two drink minimum.
The Metropolitan Room is located at 34 West 22 (between 5th and 6th Ave.). Reservations strongly suggested either online or by calling (212) 206-0440. For more information visit www.metropolitanroom.com.
