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Cabaret Review: LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT… (Kate Baldwin at 54 Below)
A DATE WITH KATE She looks and sounds radiant, and the audience knows it. Tonight, March 6, she was greeted with some of the most enthusiastic and sustained cheers I’ve heard in a long time. Accompanied by pianist/arranger Georgia Stitt, musical theatre actress and concert artist Kate Baldwin takes the stage at 54 Below for three nights…
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Cabaret Review: THE BRYCE EDWARDS FRIVOLITY HOUR (Birdland Jazz Club)
BRIGHT, BREEZY BRYCE AND HIS FREEWHEELING FRABJOUS FRIVOLITY Take note, nightclub-goers: Attending an edition of the spiffy soiree The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour might just make you believe in reincarnation. How else can you explain a young entertainer delivering old, old, old pop songs with the nasal croon and slick panache of a band vocalist…
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Cabaret Review: BEYOND THE WALLS OF JOE ALLEN (Backstage Babble at 54 Below)
BACKSTAGE BABBLE AT STUDIO 54: TOPS WITH FLOPS Not every musical is a hit, and some barely get a chance to stumble before vanishing into obscurity. The midtown Manhattan nightclub 54 Below has an ongoing concert series that explores Broadway’s Greatest Hits—but what about Broadway’s greatest flops? Last night on February 19, Beyond the Walls of…
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Cabaret Review: AN EVENING WITH TITUSS BURGESS (The Barns at Wolf Trap)
DID TITUSS EXCITE US? AND HOW! You may know Tituss Burgess best for his scene-stealing performances in 30 Rock, Schmigadoon! and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as his star turns on Broadway (Little Mermaid, Guys & Dolls, Moulin Rouge). With glass of Pinot Noir (“wink” to Kimmy Schmidt), I entered the Barns Theatre with exited anticipation. The band of four…
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Cabaret Review: DIANNE REEVES: WITH LOVE (Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater)
DIANNE REEVES’ WITH LOVE RECEIVED WITH LOVE If Grammy-winning singer Dianne Reeves’ suitcase could talk (and I’m guessing that it can’t), it would tell tales of trekking all over the world for her engagements, packed with flowing stage garb and memories. Recent and upcoming months include gigs in such exotic places as China, Germany, Japan,…
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Cabaret Review: LOVE IS IN THE AIR (Davis Gaines, The Green Room 42 at YOTEL)
EVERYTHING TO GAINES AND NOTHING TO LOSE No, he doesn’t sing “My Funny Valentine” in his entertaining show called Love Is in the Air on the night before Valentine’s Day at Green Room 42 (repeated on the holiday itself). Nor does Davis Gaines revisit any numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, a musical in…
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Jazz Album Review: I WANT TO BE HAPPY (Liz Cole)
LIZ COLE WANTS TO BE HAPPY, MAKING US HAPPY SINGING ABOUT IT Liz Cole is having an album debut gig at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood on January 29, and it was thrilling. Her standard-drenched debut album is also a winner. I Want To Be Happy is just the kind of unpretentious lounge jazz that…
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Cabaret Review: JASON ROBERT BROWN WITH ANIKA NONI ROSE (Samueli Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts)
A MUSICAL PAIRING WRITTEN IN THE STARS AND THE MOON Jason Robert Brown, the revered composer-lyricist who is considered by many as the natural successor to the late great Stephen Sondheim, graced Samueli Hall at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts with a three-night cabaret engagement that felt as intimate as it was grand….
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: MARILYN MAYE (Holiday Shows at Birdland Jazz Club in New York)
YES, YOU MAYE Adore, adore, adore her. You have to believe me — at 96, the great Marilyn Maye simply enchants, and holds the room in the palm of her hand. Very, very few cabaret performers have this ability (my top three are Eartha Kitt, Elaine Stritch and Ms. Maye). She recently had a sold-out…
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Theater Preview: THE GOLDEN GAYS: THANK YULE FOR BEING A FRIEND (Tour at Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
PICTURE IT: MIAMI, 1985, AGAIN, BUT WITH SINGING When Bea Arthur initially gave a firm “No” to participating in the 80s sit-com The Golden Girls, she nearly denied millions of soon-to-be loyal fans 180 episodes of endearing, quotable, tremendously-funny memories. Thankfully, with a not-so-minor change in the roles (reversing Betty White and Rue McClanahan’s casting),…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: MEOW MEOW: FELINE FESTIVE HOLIDAY (The Wallis, Beverly Hills, & Stanford U)
SANTA’S FUR IS GONNA FLY WITH MEOW MEOW’S FELINE FESTIVE HOLIDAY When you hear the words “performance art,” do you envision a motionless Marina Abramović allowing a 10-foot boa constrictor to wrap itself around her head? And when you hear the term “cabaret,” do you think of tired patter, same-old showtunes, and folks who’re trying…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: MARVELOUS: AN EVENING WITH MARILYN MAYE (Hollywood’s Catalina Bar & Grill, Palm Springs’ The Purple Room, NYC’s Birdland)
Adore, adore, adore her. You have to believe me — at 95, the great Marilyn Maye simply enchants, and holds the room in the palm of her hand. Very, very few cabaret performers have this ability (my top three are Eartha Kitt, Elaine Stritch and Ms. Maye). She recently had a sold-out show at Carnegie…
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Cabaret Review: EMILY GOGLIA PRESENTS THE LIMELIGHT CLUB (The Moon Room on Melrose)
TOO DARN HOT, EMILY! Hello, all you cabaret junkies. Have I got a surprise for you. And in Los Angeles of all places. I happened upon a true cabaret, the kind I go to New York for — ya know, Birdland, Green Room 42, The Duplex — but I found a lovely locale called The Moon…
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Cabaret Review: UNDRESSED: THE MUSICAL (Red Eye NY)
UNMENTIONABLES WORTH MENTIONING New Yorkers are generally up for anything. Improv musical? Sure. Improv musical with five men in their underwear? Absolutely! Improv musical based on your most embarrassing moment in public? Uhhh… Luckily, the talented performers of Undressed: The Musical even the playing field by performing in their knickers. The audience aren’t the only…
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Cabaret Review: JOEY ROSS (Pianist at “The Palms at Indian Head” — Borrego Springs, CA)
SOMETHING WILD BLOOMS ON A DESERT PIANO When one thinks of small desert towns, images come to mind like dive bars, a little grill stop for burgers, and maybe a trinket shop for passersby. What certainly doesn’t come to mind right off is an outstanding cabaret act in the lobby of a lovely hotel with…
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Cabaret Review: THEATER ADULT with GIANMARCO SORESI (Joe’s Pub at Public Theater)
QUIPS AND CHORDS Seasoned comedian Gianmarco Soresi asked a jovial audience member at Public Theater’s cozy Joe’s Pub: “Did you go to school for musical theater?”; “What was the last musical you booked?”; and “Could you sing a little of it right now?” At first this moment is playful crowd work, but when Gianmarco summons…
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Cabaret Review: IN MY LIVING ROOM (Jessica Vosk at Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine, Malibu)
LIVING IT UP IN HER LIVING ROOM In the shimmering galaxy of cabaret, few stars sparkle with the vivacity and brilliance of Jessica Vosk, who, at 40, is the real deal. You’re talking about a woman who sells out Carnegie Hall. On September 19, a raucous and appreciative audience — mainly students at Pepperdine University’s…
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Theater & Cabaret Review: CRIMSON & CLOVER (Cinegrill Theater at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)
YOU’LL WANT TO SEE THIS CLOVER AND CLOVER AGAIN There’s a wonderful new show playing at the Cinegrill Theater at the gorgeous Hollywood Roosevelt that is not so easy to shoehorn into a simple definition. It’s burlesque, immersive theater, cabaret, dance show, nightclub and more. The name of the show, Crimson & Clover, comes from…
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Concert Review: AN ENCHANTED EVENING WITH BARBRA (Sharon Owens at Magnolia Theatre, El Cajon/San Diego)
THE WAY SHE WERE Envisioning a Barbra Streisand concert, one pictures $1000 seats at the Dolby for a show where every word has been discussed, rehearsed, and teleprompted. By contrast, at El Cajon’s gem of a too-well-kept-secret venue — the 1200-seat Magnolia Theatre (which just had a $7M renovation), entertainer Sharon Owens made it feel like…
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New York Cabaret Review: DEEP INSIDE TONIGHT! (The Kinsey Sicks at Green Room 42 and On Tour)
WITH SICKS YOU GET MANHOLE Few people these days remember the gorgeous harmonies of the Andrew Sisters or the McGuire Sisters. They sang jazz, pop and traditional songs while executing elaborate dance moves. But today we have a new version of these famous girl groups. They’re a Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet called The Kinsey Sicks and…
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