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Northridge, California: Broadway legend Linda Eder returns to Cal State Northridge on Saturday, December 1 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, December 2, at 2 p.m., for her only public California concerts this season. Linda's last appearance at CSUN was an astonishing overnight sellout of thrilling performances that quickly became LA’s social and celebrity destination du jour.
Eder has been called “simply one of the most spell-binding singers of our time” by the New York Daily News Last year, she released "BY MYSELF: The Songs of Judy Garland" (Angel Records). Linda has been touring the country performing songs from her new album as well as those that have become her signatures. Expect a liberal sprinkling of holiday numbers added for this special two-day event.
Linda's tour this year saw her return to the illustrious Carnegie Hall where she performed to critical and audience acclaim. Additional touring highlights included performances at The Palace Theatre in Stamford, CT and with Michael Feinstein at The Theater in the Atlantic City Hilton.. Her last appearance for ArtsNorthridge was in March of 2005.
Eder began her career with a 13-week unprecedented win on Star Search and went on to star as Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde in her Broadway debut. A disciple of Barbra Streisand early on, Eder gradually forged her own vocal style, and branched out from show tunes to include pop standards, light swing, and adult contemporary balladry in her repertoire. As a stage actress, Eder worked primarily with her husband, composer Frank Wildhorn, who often designed material specifically for her (and produced her recordings as well). It was Wildhorn's musical adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde that first catapulted Eder to stardom, and she continued to rely on his pen for a good portion of her recorded output, though her albums of the new millennium have increasingly broadened her comfort zone.
Jekyll and Hyde embarked on a national tour in 1994, to positive box office receipts. In 1995, having become a word-of-mouth hit, Jekyll and Hyde was re-recorded in a more complete form; the following year, Eder embarked on her first national concert tour as a solo artist. In 1997, after undergoing substantial revisions, Jekyll and Hyde finally made its long-awaited Broadway premiere, by which time Eder's cult following had blossomed into full-fledged stardom. She signed with Atlantic Records that year and released It's Time, her most commercially successful album to date, which showed her coming into her own as a distinctive vocal stylist.
Eder's first holiday album, Christmas Stays the Same, appeared in 2000. She returned in 2002 with Gold, a less traditional, more guitar-based set of contemporary pop that featured covers of songs by the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Boz Scaggs, and Macey Gray. "Gold" also appeared in Eder's follow-up album, and 2003's Broadway My Way, an album of show tune standards backed away from the more contemporary touches of its predecessor.
In additional to her many successful solo albums, she has been featured in events ranging from the 2002 Olympics opening ceremony to a Bravo Holiday Special which has also been released on DVD. Please visit www.LindaEder.com for more information on the artist. |
