Special Event • Concert
A Toast to Steve & Eydie
March 2, 2025 • 3pm
“This all-stops-out, unstoppable entertainment is
something that shines like gold.”
– Broadway World
A Toast to Steve & Eydie starring David Lawrence and Debbie Gravitte!
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé personified the astonishing staying power of the Great American Songbook with their humor and style. Join their son, Emmy-nominated composer David Lawrence, along with Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte as they celebrate the duo’s treasured style. David and Debbie swing along to America’s standards with a live orchestra band, as they make their debut on the La Mirada stage!
The evening will include many of Steve & Eydie’s hits like:
“This Could be the Start of Something Big” • “Our Love is Here to Stay” • “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?” • I’ve Gotta Be Me • “If He Walked Into My Life” • “Blame It on the Bossa Nova” and more!
About David Lawrence and Debbie Gravitte
Tony Award Winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbin’s Broadway), one of Broadway’s biggest personalities, has found herself in demand from the Broadway Stage to the concert stage and beyond. After making her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, she went on to appear in: Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Blues in the Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Zorba, CHICAGO, and Les Misérables. Debbie has been seen in the ENCORE’S series productions of The Boys From Syracuse, Tenderloin, and Carnival at New York’s CITY CENTER. She has appeared as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Love Life at the Walnut St. Theatre, Red, Hot and Blue at the Papermill Playhouse and the West Coast Premiere of The Goodbye Girl.
Debbie has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York’s Rainbow and Stars, 54 BELOW, and Birdland to London’s Pizza on the Park, and back home again to Atlantic City, where she’s had the honor of performing with Jay Leno, Harry Anderson and the legendary George Burns.
David Lawrence was born in New York City, raised in Los Angeles and is the son of iconic entertainers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé. Emmy nominated for his work on Disney’s Descendants and two-time recipient of the ASCAP Award for Most Performed Film Score, David’s music and/or songs can be heard in Freaky Friday, the High School Musical trilogy, the American Pie franchise, “Jericho” (CBS), “Harper’s Island” (CBS), “Liv and Maddie” (Disney Channel), “The Cleaner” (A&E), “Common Law” (USA), Muppet Classic Theatre, The 12 Days of Christmas, Company Man, Life Without Dick, Earth, Wind and Fire’s Millennium, Diane Schuur’s Pure Schuur and the HBO documentary Becoming Mike Nichols.
He has been commissioned to write three ballets for Melissa Barak’s Barak Ballet including E/SPACE in collaboration with award-winning interactive video artist Refik Anadol. For director Kenny Ortega he composed the music for the Lake of Dreams Orb Show at the Wynn Hotel, he served as Musical Supervisor on Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and orchestrated the Off-Broadway musicals Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah and Tapestry. Most recently he completed his first solo album, Nosotros, a tribute to his mother and her recordings with the Trio Los Panchos.
A graduate of Mannes Conservatory of Music, David lives in Los Angeles with his lyricist/producing partner/wife Faye Greenberg, two delightfully deranged mutts and occasionally daughter Mabel Lawrence who thinks going to college is more important than keeping Dad company.
Ticket Information
To purchase: Order Online, call the Box Office at 562.944.9801 or visit us in person.
Performances: Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 3pm.
Run Time: TBD.