Metropolitan favorite Liz Callaway returns to the Metropolitan Room on December 31 with two shows. Her first show, beginning at 8pm, is to celebrate the release of her newest CD Passage of Time. 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.
At 10:30, Callaway helps ring in the new year with a second show titled "The Best of Liz" which highlits some of her favorites, including Meadowlark, Memory, The Story Goes On, and more.
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.
Her first show of the night starts at 8pm. Tickets cost $40 (with a two beverage minimum). The second concert takes place at 10:30, and tickets cost $125 (which includes open bar and food). Tickets may be purchased online only at www.metropolitanroom.com.
The Metropolitan Room is located at 34 West 22 (between 5th and 6th Ave.).
