Hot on the heels of  her recent Café Carlyle appearance, Tony Award winning Broadway star Christine Ebersole charmed an appreciative audience on the John Drew Stage at Guild Hall in East Hampton Saturday July 31, 2010.  Beginning the evening with “IT"S TOO DARN HOT,” her enchanting interpretations of songs from the American songbook covered every imaginable style and even evoked the memorable spirit of Eartha Kitt before  culminating in a marvelous new version of “Another Winter in a Summer Town,” from Grey Gardens, which she performed in East Hampton for the first time marking an ironic post script to her award winning performance from that show. Her captivating rendition of songs under the musical direction of John Oddo were strung together with witty tales from her own life, thrilling a full house of enthusiastic fans including Matthew Broderick and wife Sarah Jessica Parker, along with old friends Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman, the composers of Hairspray.  PC

Photography: Barry Gordin