42nd Street
Wednesday, June 27, 8PM
Thursday, June 28, 8PM
Sunday, July 1, 3PM
Thursday, July 5, 8PM
Sunday, July 8, 3PM

42nd Street is an unforgettable musical extravaganza that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1980. It is a celebration of Broadway. Musical hits include You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me, Dames, I Know Now, We're in the Money, Lullaby of Broadway, Shuffle Off to Buffalo and Forty-Second Street. The PERFECT WAY TO KICK OFF THE SUMMER!

"A musical made in heaven" (Time Magazine)

Tickets: $28
Senior & Students: $25
Opening Night & Groups: $22

The Doo Wop Project
Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.m

The Doo Wop Project stars leading cast members from the Tony Award Winning Broadway smash, JERSEY BOYS.

The Doo Wop Project is a night of songs mixed with individual stories and references to their upbringings and experiences in the business, particularly backstage at The August Wilson Theatre, home of Jersey Boys, where the idea for the group was conceived.

NOT a show featuring Jersey Boy's material and/or songs by Frankie Valli and/or The 4 Seasons, this evening is an homage to classic Doo Wop and the music that was inspired by that sound, honoring songs and groups we hear all the time but maybe more importantly, some that exist only as a memory or somehow got lost along the way or are now relegated to box sets sold on late-night infomercials. Classic hits by every standard for every genersation.

The Doo Wop Project features songs by Randy & The Rainbows ("Denise"),Thurston Harris ("Little Bitty Pretty One"), The Skyliners ("Since I Don't Have You"), The Capris ("Morse Code of Love") and more. In addition, the show will include such classic contemporary songs by Michael Jackson ("The Way You Make Me Feel") and "Valerie" best recognized from Amy Winehouse and Bruno Mars performances.. Taking such contemporary songs and giving them the Doo Wop spin brings a whole new generation to the wonderful music of Doo Wop.

Tickets: $30, $25 Groups

A Gala Evening With Tony Winning Actress and Film/Television Star Christine Ebersole
Thursday, August 23, 8PM

Christine Ebersole brings her recent  Carlyle engagement show to the Axelrod PAC. 

The evening is sure to be one of the highlights of the Axelrod season and will help raise much needed funds to support our programming.  Christine Ebersole's Carlyle show at the Axelrod is sure to include such classics as Strike Up The Band, Johnny One Note, Right as the Rain, Pennies from Heaven, Brother Can You Spare a Dime and from Her Tony Award winning performance in Grey Gardens, "Will You"

Stephen Holden of the NY Times called her show "the Apex of New York."
All those voices belong to Christine Ebersole, and she uses every one of them - and more - in her unmissable cabaret act at the Cafe Carlyle. I have long been an admirer of Ms. Ebersole's versatility as a New York actress in musicals (and plays, too, but the subject today is song). Listening to the range of her technique packed into roughly an hour of performance time pushed my admiration into something like awe."
Ben Brantley, The New York Times: "Ever since last Saturday night I've been hearing voices. One of them is a clear, righteous soprano that recalls Joan Baez, another is a lilting, silvery curlicue like that of the soubrette in an operetta from the gaslight era; then there's the sassy "Hello, boys" trumpet of a girl singer with a big band; and, most hauntingly, there's the glasslike voice that seems to exist expressly as a container for the shimmering pain within.
 
Christine Ebersole won The 2007 "Tony Award for Outstanding Actress" in the "role of a lifetime" as "Edie Beale" in the acclaimed Tony Nominated Broadway Musical "GREY GARDENS". Lauded with virtually every Off- Broadway theater award when it premiered at Playwrights Horizon, GREY GARDENS went on to pack its Broadway theater for over a year, with every theater critic praising Christine's bravura performance. She starred opposite Angela Lansbury and Rupert Everett in the 2009 spring and summer Broadway hit "BLITHE SPIRIT," has enchanted audiences throughout her performing career, from the Broadway stage to television series' and specials, film, concert appearances and recordings. Currently, Christine can be seen in TV Land's new comedy series "Retired at 35."

Christine has won critical acclaim as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Outstanding Actress in a Musical, for her portrayal of "Dorothy Brock" in the revival of "42nd STREET.," starred in "DINNER AT EIGHT", garnering a Tony Award nomination and starred as M'Lynn on Broadway in "STEEL MAGNOLIAS".

In concert, Christine has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall with The San Francisco Symphony (PBS Special), multiple concerts with The Boston Pops, multiple appearances at The Kennedy Center Honors, a 2009 solo concert at The Kennedy Center and in virtually every city across the country.

In television, Christine has appeared in "Boston Legal," "Law and Order, SVU," USA's "Royal Pains," "Lipstick Jungle," "Cashmere Mafia," "Will and Grace" and ABC's "Samantha Who." She has appeared on "The Today Show", "The View" and "The Colbert Report."

In film, Christine was featured in "Confessions of a Shopaholic," "Tootsie," "Black Sheep," Amadeus," "Dead Again," "My Favorite Martian," My Girl II," "Folks!" "and "Richie Rich."

In addition to her television, film, Broadway and concert work, Christine has released 4 CDs.

Tickets: A limited number of $60 and $80 seats will be sold for this concert.
Patron Seats: $180 each include Desert Reception following the concert  and other Sponsor/Patron Levels Available

Bobbi Collins
Thursday,August 30

Bobby Collins is always the funniest guy in the room. He is a show-business institution who has made millions laugh. He has hosted VH1's "Stand Up Soptlight"; toured with Cher, Julio Iglesias, Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett, among others. He is America's Favorite Comedian!

Tickets: $30, $27 Seniors