Dixie Carter will bring her critically
acclaimed cabaret straight from New York City’s Cafe Carlyle to the Little Theatre
(in the Cape Henlopen High School) at 8:00 p.m., Aug. 8. The performance will benefit the
Henlopen Theater Project, which will launch its first full summer season of Equity
Theater, featuring professional actors and directors, at the Little Theatre in 1999.Ms.
Carter, embarking on a nationwide tour of performing arts centers with her concert/cabaret
evening, combines her talents as a singer and comedienne in the show. The New York Times
calls Ms. Carter, "A performer who inhabits a song totally while singing it, veering
from madcap playfulness one minute to intense, teary-eyed romanticism the
next...glamorous...romantic... brilliant...the cabaret world’s most elegantly funny
cutup."
She is perhaps most widely known for her seven-year starring role as Julia Sugerbaker
on TV’s Designing Women, and appearances on On Our Own, Out of the Blue, Filthy Rich
and Diff’rent Strokes. Ms. Carter has performed numerous roles on stage, including
Maria Callas in Terrance McNally’s award-winning play, Master Class, and has produced
CD’s, workout videos and books on tape.
Ms. Carter is on the Henlopen Theater Project’s Distinguished Artists Advisory
Board along with her husband, actor Hal Holbrook.
Tickets for Dixie Carter’s benefit performance are $100 and includes a
European-style café reception following the performance.
At press time, the performance was nearly sold-out, so don’t delay getting
tickets. Call the Henlopen Theatre Project at (302) 226-4103.
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