Broadway to pay tribute to Elaine Stritch – Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley & Bernadette Peters to perform

Wow.

It’s going to be quite a collection of Broadway divas gathered to pay tribute next month to one of the grandest divas of them all: Elaine Stritch.

The great Stritch died in July at the age of 89 and will be remembered on Nov. 17 in a Broadway-sized show called Everybody, Rise! A Celebration of Elaine Stritch at the Al Hirschfeld Theater.

The show will feature Tony winning divas Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley and Christine Ebersole as well as Michael Feinstein and Hal Prince, among others.

Director and playwright George C. Wolfe, who is constructing the tribute, told The New York Times: “Elaine lived on so many of these stages, and she loved to perform, so it just seemed the fun, smart and correct thing to do.”