Lynne Wintersteller

Upcoming Project: Revisiting Wildfire

Administrator — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:29:46 +0000

NY Off-Broadway Premiere

REVISITING WILDFIRE

Allyce Beasley &
Lynne Wintersteller
ArcLight Theatre
152 W. 71st Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 352-3101

1st Preview: June 1, 2012
Opens: June 6 – June 24, 2012

www.rightdownbroadway.org

“Prelude” Sample Album Available on CDBaby

Administrator — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:56:59 +0000

“Prelude” is a three-song Maltby/Shire sample CD that I dedicated to my parents, Alden and Virginia. Natural singers themselves, they instilled in me a passion for music since birth and constantly told me, “Your singing is a God-given gift. You should be recording.” This was recorded three weeks after my mother’s death – she is in my voice, my father’s artistry is in my soul, and they are eternally in my heart.

Buy it on CDBaby and iTunes

Music in the Air

Administrator — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:19:37 +0000

“The performances in this semi-staged production were delightful, and I was particularly taken by the singing and wit of Lynne Wintersteller as a grand and glamorous operetta diva.”
– Clive Barnes, NEW YORK POST

“A far more spirited presentation. You came away loving it especially in the hands of performers like Lynne Wintersteller.”
– Howard Kissel, DAILY NEWS

“The sensation was Lynne Wintersteller as a tempermental, irrepressible, irreplaceable operetta diva. Miss W. has done great work for years – her voice, acting, looks and wit are matchless – and the only reasons that her name is not a household word are that she is a bit taller than most leading men, and that Broadway these days is a bit smaller than her talents. Could one of these things be changed?”
– John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

“The company was fine, with Lynne Wintersteller especially fun as the diva. (Wintersteller is an underutilized talent; how about one of the New York companies staging Do I Hear A Waltz? for her?)
– Ken Mandlebaum, THEATRE WEEK

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Administrator — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:18:27 +0000

“Lynne Wintersteller as Amy Evans, the central character, is a woman who might almost have stepped out of a William Inge play. Ms. Wintersteller’s readings of the songs are strong and heartfelt.”
– Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

“Wintersteller perfectly embodying that sad spinster mix of devotedness and frustration.”
– Jeremy Gerard, VARIETY

“The most difficult role is probably that of Lynne Wintersteller as Stan’s sister Amy, and she plays it with enormous grace and understated passion.”
– Clive Barnes, NEW YORK POST

“Melissa Manchester has composed an ambitious music-theater score, roiling with complex trios and pent-up solo turns for Wintersteller…the elegant Wintersteller conveys a new urgency in her singing.”
– Jan Stuart, NEW YORK NEWSDAY

“Wintersteller’s voice has great range and maturity.”
– Howard Kissel, DAILY NEWS

“The incomparable Lynne Wintersteller is immeasurably charming.”
– John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Closer Than Ever

Administrator — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:17:30 +0000

“Lynne Wintersteller has impressive credentials and can do whatever acting is required. It should be mentioned that she is attractive as well as gifted and thoroughly deserves her luck in having such refreshing, tender, witty songs to sing.”

– Edith Oliver, THE NEW YORKER

“But tall Lynne Wintersteller is best. Beautiful from the front and droll in profile, she combines elegance and humor (rare) with a firm, lilting voice without a break in it (rarer) and with acting ability (pure platinum!).”
– John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

“Lynne Wintersteller possesses the kind of rich theatrical voice that elevates a show tune. She could stop a show with ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’.”
– Scot Haller, PEOPLE MAGAZINE (Picks & Pans – CTE CD)

A Grand Night for Singing

Administrator — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:05:40 +0000

“Miss Wintersteller is – forgive the cliché, but I know it was minted for her – a perfect long-stemmed American beauty rose, and a rose that can sing (thank you Gertrude Stein!) like anything. A woman of subtle yet overpowering allure, whose aristocratic sensuality lightly wraps itself around a song and you, and never lets go of either. Her singing, her loveliness are a limpid mountain pool…you can drown equally happily in either of them.”

– John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

“Wintersteller, a lanky brunette who would have been called a triple threat (actor/singer/dancer) if the breed wasn’t virtually extinct, is the very incarnation of ‘Something Wonderful’ (The King & I).”
– Marc Peyser, NEWSWEEK

“Yet it is in the more serious, heartfelt number such as ‘Something Wonderful,’ done by Wintersteller with aching intensity, that the revue reaches its musical and emotional high point.”
– Michael Kuchwara, ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Lynne Wintersteller (she’d be a star in summer, too) seems grace personified.”
– Clive Barnes, NEW YORK POST