British import Daniel Cainer’s one-man show, “Gefilte Fish & Chips,” drew a capactiy crowd to Urban Stages to revel in the humor and humanity of his stories-in-song about four generations of his Jewish family in England. As well as performing the show, Cainer wrote and composed it, and functioned as his own one-man tech crew and orchestra.
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Those Girls rerprise their show at the Beechman on Monday, June 3, at 7 p.m. Try not to miss it, but if you do, there’s always “Those Girls Sing The Boys, Volume 2” to look fowsrd to. I know I’m looking forward to it!
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Martin Vidnovic brought a touch of Vegas at its cheesiest to The Green Room 42 in “Broadway and Beyond,” a program of standards featuring the Broadway veteran’s brazen baritenor and a barrage of corny jokes.
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Rev. Mary is an edgy, rollicking, big-voiced entertainer who has made a specialty of mining the 20th century songbook for tunes about the taboo. In “I’m SOOO High!: Rev. Mary’s Reefer Revue,” the Rev. (Mary Elizabeth Micari in real life) and her All-Man Band revived obscure blues numbers celebrating jazz cabbage—you know, jive? Catnip? Tea? Mary Jane?—with raucous good humor.
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Marquee Five reprised their newest show, “Back Porch Swing: Swingin’ Standards in Knockout Harmony,” at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and it was exactly that: a knockout.
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“I Can Cook: When Barbara Met Wally” is Sullivan’s tribute to Harper and Cook’s artistic symbiosis: pianist and singer; orchestra and diva; savior and muse.
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International chanteuse and theatre artist Yael Rasooly and virtuoso accordionist Iliya Magalnyk brought an old-world glamour, a polyglot sensibility, and a light touch to the Laurie Beechman Theatre with “Glamour In The Dark,” an eclectic set of songs in French, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
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Christmas came early (or did Chanukah come late?) for those of us lucky enough to catch “Mischa Kischkum is OFF THE CHARTS (Songs You Don’t Know By Writers You Love)” at Don’t Tell Mama on December 20.
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With characteristic self-deprecating humor, Carol Lipnik dedicated her set of original songs and quirky covers at Pangea to “The Goddess of Imperfection.” Lipnik has one foot in the avant-garde and one foot in the sideshow tradition of her native Coney Island.
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Warm, sincere, thoughtful; a mature woman of depth and substance, with a round contralto and a twinkle in her eye—who wouldn’t want to spend an hour in the company of Deborah Zecher?
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Cabaret Hotspot Spotlights this week are: 7/2, 3 & 6 Joanna Gleason (F54) - 7/8 Adam Pascal (GR42) - 7/9 Celia Berk (Birdland) - 7/11, 12 & 13 Honey Davenport (LBT) - 7/12 Josephine Sanges (Beach) - 7/14 Songs of Meg Flather (DTM) - 7/15 Becca C Kidwell's Infinite Joy Benefit (DTM) and Jim Caruso's July Broadway at Birdland series.
I have also posted Re-Views for the delightful Janie Press and Marge Helenchild.
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Ann Kittredge @ F54B 5/29/19 7pm - Cabaret HotSpot!
Photo Credit: Jeff Harnar Ann Kittredge Fancy Meeting You Here: An Evening of Ahrens & Flaherty Feinstein's 54 Below May 29, 2019 - 7pm On an unseasonably cool evening , Ann Kittredge heated up the season, by delivering what may go down in cabaret history as the perfect musical theater…Having just appeared in Richard Skipper Celebrates amazing show yesterday, I was inspired to write this week's Blog on the benefits of going to see or being in a Group Show and pointers on how to actually produce one! Enjoy!
INTERVIEW: Julie Budd “The Songs of My Life…” - Cabaret HotSpot!
INTERVIEW: Julie Budd “The Songs of My Life…” - Cabaret HotSpot!
Imagine standing on stage of Caesar’s Palace. It’s 1970 and you are getting ready to open the show for the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra. Imagine the thrill of being there, the honor and the excitement to open for one of our country’s greatest entertainers. Now, imagine that you…Just posted, this week's Sue's Views is on how do we sing through difficult, real-life circumstances and still deliver.
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I just published another Sue's Views called - Got the "I Wanna Quit Cabaret Blues" which, clearly, deals with those times when we have all felt like walking away but then examining how and why we come back . Also, how we can get through this transition and these feelings to continue to do our best work. Go to: www.cabarethotspot.com/got-the-i-wanna-quit-cabare…/
