Elaine Stritch, who is moving from the Big Apple to Michigan after 71 years in New York, has created a cabaret clamor with her farewell shows at the Cafe Carlyle, a short ride downstairs from her residence for the past 10 years, Room 308, at the Upper East Side hotel. Frenzied Stritch fans are offering thousands to get tickets to the 100-seat venue for the shows which begins tonight, we hear. One staffer tells us he was offered two grand in the form of “a handful of crisp bills that were thrust upon me.” But he sniffed, “The hotel takes the waiting list seriously, and Elaine takes her fans even more seriously.” The 88-year-old, husky-voiced cabaret legend is moving to her home state of Michigan, and the farewell performances through Saturday are reportedly, in part, to pay her (presumably enormous) Carlyle bill. Of her decision to move, the Tony and Emmy award-winning actress recently said, “I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don’t want to live in New York anymore.”