David Letterman and Paul Shaffer are taking the stage together once again.
Letterman and Shaffer will sit down at New York City’s Perelman Performing Arts Center next month for a wide-ranging conversation about the pair’s thirty-three year collaboration in late-night.
Shaffer was the bandleader and musical director for David Letterman throughout the host’s late-night career. They began their partnership with the launch of NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, and continued it on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman in 1993.
The newly-announced event comes nearly ten years after the finale of Letterman’s Late Show. The pair have remained close friends and collaborators since then, with Shaffer serving as composer on Letterman’s Netflix talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, and making occasional appearances on Letterman’s YouTube channel where the two can be reminiscing about their days in late-night.
It sounds like fans can expect more of that at next month’s event: “Late night legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence, and sincere curiosity back to PAC NYC for a conversation with his long-time friend and former music director, Paul Shaffer,” an event description reads.
Last year, Letterman held a sold-out conversation with rock climber Alex Honnold at the same venue.
“Conversations: David Letterman with Paul Shaffer” is scheduled for April 10 at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan. Tickets go on sale Thursday, March 20.
