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Elaine Stritch given a Broadway tribute

FILE - This April 2, 2013 file image released by the O+M Company shows Elaine Stritch performing her final engagement at the Cafe Carlyle in New York with Rob Bowman at the piano. Actors Nathan Lane, Lena Hall and Holland Taylor and writer Liz Smith will lead a tribute to Elaine Stritch, on Monday. The show, "Everybody, Rise! A Celebration of Elaine Stritch," is directed by George C. Wolfe and will take place at The Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Stritch died Thursday, July 17, 2014 at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89. (AP Photo/The O+M Company, Walter McBride, File) FILE - This April 2, 2013 file image released by the O+M Company shows Elaine Stritch performing her final engagement at the Cafe Carlyle in New York with Rob Bowman at the piano. Actors Nathan Lane, Lena Hall and Holland Taylor and writer Liz Smith will lead a tribute to Elaine Stritch, on Monday. The show, "Everybody, Rise! A Celebration of Elaine Stritch," is directed by George C. Wolfe and will take place at The Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Stritch died Thursday, July 17, 2014 at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89. (AP Photo/The O+M Company, Walter McBride, File)

By Associated Press November 17, 2014 1 min read

NEW YORK (AP) – Actors Nathan Lane, Lena Hall and Holland Taylor and writer Liz Smith will lead a tribute to Elaine Stritch, the funny and irascible theater star who has gone to the big Broadway in the sky.

The show, “Everybody, Rise! A Celebration of Elaine Stritch,” is directed by George C. Wolfe and will take place at The Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Stritch died July 17 at age 89.

Tony and Emmy Award-winning Stritch found new fans as Alec Baldwin’s mother on television’s “30 Rock,” but she was best known for her stage work – especially her candid one-woman show “At Liberty” and in the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.”