Kitty Carlisle Hart ~ 95th Birthday Celebration at the Empire Plush Room

Chuck, ready to see the Kitty Carlisle Hart show!	Kitty Carlisle Hart signing Posters!	My Signed Poster!

Kitty Carlisle Hart ~ Talk about having a great evening in San Francisco!  I met my friends Max and Randall, brothers at the Empire Plush Room along with their 86-year-old mother.  We got there an hour early and got seats next to the stage and had a wonderful evening.  Max and Randall had their mother go to Kitty and have her sign a program for her, ten dollars a signature you see!  

Now this is an interesting story.  We saw the program on Wednesday, January 12th, 2006 and the piano accompanist was great.  Kitty said he has been working with her for 12 years and is responsible for her ability to learn new songs and to keep on top of her show at 95 years of age!  He sang a song with her and looked great at the grand piano with his tuxedo and the lighting.  Now get this, today, Thursday, I am finished working out at the Y and in the basement with nothing on, getting ready to shower, and a man came by and asked me how the show was.  Well of course, I waxed supreme, the show was wonderful, Kitty was wonderful, and the accompanist was wonderful and so on.  Suddenly there is a man standing next to me in work out clothes and smiles and asked me if I recognized him.  Huh, I said.  Everyone just looked on!  Finally he laughed and said he was the accompanist for Kitty Carlisle Hart and enjoyed how I said I had liked the show!  I said to him, very diplomatically, "You look shorter than on the stage!"  He cracked up and agreed he looked better in a tuxedo and under special lighting.  He said he is 62 and loves working with Kitty.  He said they were just in Manhattan and were going back to do another show.  I told him a friend, John, is going tonight and he said to tell him to go backstage after the performance and ask for David saying he met me in the locker room at the Y!  He said he would talk to John and perhaps meet Kitty privately.   I called John's home phone and left a message and as far as I am concerned, if John gets an autograph or two, he should give one to me!  Talk about a small world!

David also told me there were over a thousand people on stand by tickets but would not get in.  He said Farley Granger, the movie actor, is at the York Hotel where the Empire Plush Room is located and asked for a free ticket to come see her.  David said they had a good laugh, as there weren't any seats available for anyone, even an older movie actor.  So we were lucky to get in to see her.