Andrea Axelrod in MORE THAN A BRIDE: Elsa Lanchester and Her Bawdy/Droll/Poignant/Cockney Songs

MAC-nominee Andrea Axelrod will pay tribute to the musical legacy of the great character actress Elsa Lanchester in MORE THAN A BRIDE: Elsa Lanchester and Her Bawdy/Droll/Cockney/Poignant Songs at Don’t Tell Mama on three Sundays at 4 pm: February 22, March 8 and March 22, 2026. John M. Cook is pianist and music director (also appearing as Charles Laughton), and James Beaman directs.

Remembered primarily for her iconic role as the Bride of Frankenstein and as the wife of Charles Laughton, Lanchester made a name for herself in London in the 1920s, singing at her own night spot, and then mesmerized L.A. audiences in the 1940s at the Turnabout Theatre as a self-styled diseuse, talk-singing witty, often bawdy character pieces written for her by Forman Brown, a lyricist, composer, puppeteer and novelist.

$20 cover ($15 MAC discount); $20 minimum (must include two drinks); food menu available