At The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach in April: 9X Tony Winner Tommy Tune; Billy Stritch & Jim Caruso

PALM BEACH, Fla. - March 11, 2015 - PRLog -- The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach is Showcasing Two Award-Winning Acts in the Royal Room in April

* Tommy Tune - March 31-April 11

* Billy Stritch & Jim Caruso - April 15-18

(Palm Beach, FL – March 11, 2015)  The Colony Hotel - which  The Palm Beach Post has hailed as  “probably the best place for cabaret on the planet” – is continuing another star-packed season next month in the hotel's celebrated  Royal Room, featuring several award-winning headliners:

March 3-April 4 & April 7-11

Tommy Tune

Back By Popular Demand

Broadway’s only 9-time winner of the prestigious Tony Award,  Tommy Tune is widely recognized as  one of the world’s most prolific director/choreographers, who has enchanted audiences over the past 50 years with his charisma, vision and innovation. A native Texan, Mr. Tune began his career as a dancer in the Broadway shows Baker Street, A Joyful Noise and How Now Dow Jones. He would soon step out of the chorus and into a principal role in the Broadway musical Seesaw, which won him his first Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. His first Broadway directing and choreography credits were for the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Tune has been honored with an unprecedented nine Tony Awards celebrating him as a performer, choreographer and director (Best Actor in a Musical for My One and Only, Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Seesaw, Best Choreography for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, My One and Only, Grand Hotel and The Will Rogers Follies, and Best Direction of a Musical for Nine, Grand Hotel and The Will Rogers Follies).

In addition, Tune has been awarded eight Drama Desk Awards, three Astaire Awards and the Society of Directors and Choreographers’ George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement. Film credits include Hello Dolly and The Boyfriend, and he made his Las Vegas debut as the star of EFX at the MGM Grand Hotel. Tune is the recipient of The National Medal of Arts, the highest honor for artistic achievement given by the President of the United States, and he has been honored with his own star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, he was designated a Living Landmark by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. This is Mr. Tune’s second appearance at The Colony Hotel’s Royal Room.

Reviews of Tommy Tune

+  Stephen Holden in The New York Times: Tommy Tune “still radiates the boyish ingenuousness of a Texas hayseed newly arrived in the big city to gape in wonder at the lights of Broadway. New York City may be the only place large enough to reckon with his talent. At once gawky and graceful, this limber, toe-tapping showbiz oxymoron is still a gosh, golly, gee-whiz kind of guy: an endearing naïf.”

+  David A. Frye, Palm Beach Daily News: Tommy “Tune tells his tall tales through a select collection of pop and show tunes, stitched together with show-biz anecdotes and accented by the occasional eight bars or so of tap. The show has impressive production elements that extend the performance beyond the cabaret genre into almost a mini-musical.”

+  The Washington Post:  “For a man (past) 70, Tommy Tune is still strikingly cute… in skinny jeans and with his collar popped, looking like a kid ready for his first big break… A traditionalist to the core, a sentimental link to the era before jukebox musicals and animated extravaganzas, a latter-day Fred Astaire… Tune’s between-songs patter got a bit show-bizzy at times, but… by and large, the old song-and-dance vaudeville vocabulary was invoked with uncommon class.”

The Cost to Attend Billy Stritch & Jim Caruso

For each guest there will be a $75 cover charge, plus a $20 minimum for food and beverage.

Showtime & Ticket Information

For all Royal Room Cabaret performances, the doors open at 6:30 for dinner and the show starts at 8:30. To make reservations, people should call the hotel box-office at  561.659.8100.  The Colony is located at  155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach, just one block south of Worth Avenue, one block west of the Atlantic Ocean.

About The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach

Host to American Presidents and British Royalty, Movie Stars and Corporate Czars, The Colony has been the center of Palm Beach society for nearly 70 years, An intimate, friendly boutique hotel with British Colonial flair but now with a unique and colorful flair courtesy of Carleton Varney that is both more Florida spacious and Palm Beach specific, is just steps away from shopping on world famous Worth Avenue, and about 100 yards from a beautiful Atlantic Ocean beach. The Colony offers guests the choice of charming hotel rooms, luxurious suites, spectacular penthouses and spacious two bedroom villas, each one complete with smart TVs and Frette linens, plus beautiful grounds.

In recent years The Colony Hotel has won numerous prestigious awards, including  Hotel of the Year  Award from the Hotel & Lodging Association of Palm Beach County (2012); the  Quintessentially Palm Beach Award from the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce as part of the town’s Centennial Celebration (2011); and the  Providencia Award from Discover the Palm Beaches, the only time South Florida’s most impressive annual honor recognizing excellence within the local hospitality and tourism industry has even been awarded to a smaller, boutique hotel (2009).

For more information, please call 561.655.5430 or visit  www.thecolonypalmbeach.com.

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