Late Night Broadway - Top 5 Cabaret Picks for July 21-27, 2014

Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week, including: Under the Covers, The Lady with the Torch, Dare to Dream, A Taylor Swift Love Story, and Freestyle Love Supreme.

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Victoria Shaw "Under the Covers" With Special Guests ­­­Ramin Karimloo & James Dean Hicks

Where: Birdland NYC (315 West 44th St)

When: July 21, 7:00 PM

Tickets: $25 at http://www.birdlandjazz.com

Hosted by award winning songwriter Victoria Shaw, Under The Covers has become a favorite recurring highlight at Birdland, featuring a wide variety of top-selling songwriters and musical acts from across the pop, rock and country worlds, and offering intimate acoustic performances of huge hit songs - along with the little-known stories behind them. This event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series. In the world of theatrical performers, Ramin Karimloo is known as one of the most formidable talents in the industry. Heralded for his portrayal of leading roles Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, Karimloo is a musical force unlike any other. In fact, it was his unbridaled reputation that led to his performance in the recent Oscar tribute to LES MISERABLES.

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Patti LuPone- The Lady with the Torch

Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)

When: July 21- August 2

Tickets: $85-$155 at http://54below.com/artist/patti-lupone/

Patti LuPone has a miracle of a voice. It can be as big and bold as a brass band or as plaintive as a solitary woodwind. Here it is, in all its glory, in a collection of torch songs." -- Jess Cagle,People Magazine . Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone returns to 54 Below with her critically-acclaimed show The Lady with A Torch. LuPone performs an eclectic collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz, Jule Styne,Sammy Cahn, Billy Barnes, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, and Cole Porter. Enjoy what Don Heckman of The Los Angeles Times described as "a beautifully paced, marvelously delivered torch-song exploration of the pleasures and pains of love; LuPone's remarkable, larger-than-life qualities and stunning musicality are distilled into the pure essence of her art."

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Chantel Riley ~ Dare to Dream

Where: Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd St.)

When: July 21 at 9:00 PM

Tickets: $20- $115 at http://metropolitanroom.com

Chantel Riley, 'Nala' in Broadway's landmark musical The Lion King, will make her solo concert debut in "DARE2DREAM." The evening, which marks Riley's solo concert debut, will allow audiences to get up close and personal with the singing actress as she presents an eclectic range of material including R&B, soul, and reggae.

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A Taylor Swift Love Story

Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)

When: July 22 at 9:30 PM

Tickets: $35 - $65 at http://54below.com/artist/a-taylor-swift-love-story/

There is no contemporary songwriter more prolific in articulating the highs and lows of young love than Taylor Swift. Her songs -- some familiar to all, some lesser-known -- span one universal emotional territory. Using selections from all four of Swift's studio albums alongside intermittent poetry and narration, the concert will celebrate Taylor Swift's catalog of beautiful and lively songs about young love. Featuring a cast of Broadway performers, Taylor Swift's best songs will be shared via specific perspectives by some of the theatre community's most adept young storytellers.

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Freestyle Love Supreme

Where: Joe's Pub at The Public (425 Lafayette Street)

When: July 25, 11:30 PM

Tickets: $25 at http://joespub.publictheater.org

From two of the creators of the Tony award-winning IN THE HEIGHTS comesFreestyle Love Supreme. FLS is a stage show like no other. Five performers take the crowd on a non-stop hip hop improv ride, spinning cues from the audience into instantaneous riffs and fully realized musical numbers. The New York Times calls us,"Masters in the art of Freestyle rhyme." The group has performed at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Paramount Comedy UK and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. FLS isLin-Manuel Miranda,Anthony Veneziale,Chris Jackson,Chris"Shockwave" Sullivan,Andrew Bancroft,Arthur Lewis,James IglehartandBill Sherman. Directed byThomas Kail.

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