Video: watch Zoë sing 'Happy Birthday' from Zorba!

8 May 2015 01:28

In this lovely new video from Broadway.com you can watch Zoë, as Hortense, sing the poignant 'Happy Birthday' from Zorba!

New York City Center's revival of this life-affirming 1968 musical runs until 10 May. Tickets are available now.

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Videos: watch highlights from Zorba!

7 May 2015 01:20

You can enjoy highlights from the musical Zorba!, starring Zoë as Hortense, in this excellent new video from New York City Center. Head to Playbill for even more great clips from the show. Zoë and her fellow cast members are clearly having a fantastic time!

Zorba! runs until 10 May. Tickets are available now.

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Zorba! begins on Broadway tonight!

6 May 2015 15:37

It's almost here! Following yesterday's dress rehearsal (watched by an audience of specially invited guests), New York City Center's revival of the life-affirming musical Zorba!, starring Zoë as mysterious innkeeper Hortense, will have its first public performance tonight. BroadwayWorld.com has several great photos from the show.

The return of Zorba! to the stage (it was last seen on Broadway during the 1980s) has been enthusiastically heralded by Playbill today. The final production in City Center's 2015 Encores! season, the musical runs from 6-10 May. It marks the first time Zoë has appeared on-stage in a musical since 1975, and so is sure to be a treat for fans in the US.

Let's wish Zoë and everyone else involved with the production – co-stars John Turturro, Santino Fontana, Elizabeth A. Davis, Marin Mazzie, director Walter Bobbie, and many more – all the very best!

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Update: The Esther Benjamins Trust's Nepal Earthquake Appeal in action - please donate, if you can

4 May 2015 23:23

As recently reported on this website, The Esther Benjamins Trust, a charity working in Nepal and supported by Zoë, has launched the Nepal Earthquake Appeal, for which it urgently needs donations.

You can donate to the charity online, by cheque or text to help fund its vital relief work in Nepal – which includes supporting children and impoverished families, as well as carrying out search and rescue work.

The Esther Benjamins Trust has recently updated its appeal page with videos and photos of Nepal (one of which is shown above), showing how the charity is using existing donations to support earthquake survivors, and drawing attention to the devastation and its impact.

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'This is the most terrifying thing I've ever done in my life': Zoë interviewed about Zorba!

4 May 2015 22:34

The day after tomorrow, Zoë will take to the stage as mysterious innkeeper Hortense in New York City Center's highly anticipated revival of Zorba!, her first musical since the mid-1970s.

'This is the most terrifying thing I've ever done in my life,' Zoë says of the production in a fascinating new interview from The Clyde Fitch Report, an art and politics publication. Scary, but undoubtedly a great deal of fun too: 'I'm excited by the idea of doing it,' she adds.

Zorba! will begin its seven-performance run – part of the Encores! season – exactly two months after Zoë's opening night as poet Stevie Smith, in Stevie, on the other side of the Atlantic. As she makes clear to the interviewer, David Finkle (clearly a long-standing admirer, who has 'seen Wanamaker in almost every production she's done'), her schedule has been extremely busy recently, to say the least.

Zoë explains: 'We closed [in Stevie] on Saturday, I packed on Sunday, flew [to New York] on Monday and had dinner with [the director of Zorba!] Walter Bobbie on Tuesday'!

Zorba! runs from 6-10 May. Tickets are available now.

Thanks to Janet for the link to the interview.

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