Maude Maggart Introduces "Mondays with Maude" March 7 at Oak Room

Maude Maggart will launch a weekly series, "Mondays with Maude," in the Algonquin's Oak Room March 7th, beginning with a reprise of her critically acclaimed cabaret show, "The Talk of the Town: The Music of 1933." In her show, Maude contrasts the froth of the 1930s, exemplified by Astaire-Rogers romantic fantasies and Busby Berkeley's musicals, with the reality of the Depression, starkly brought home in the Al Dubin-Harry Warren songs, "Remember My Forgotten Man" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." With piano accompaniment by Lanny Meyers, Maude will also sing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You," "Paper Moon," "Carioca," "Yesterdays," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Sophisticated Lady," "Night and Day," "It's The Talk of the Town" and "Happy Days Are Here Again," among others.

Maude's Monday shows are at 9 pm, with a cover charge of $50 per person and a food and beverage minimum of $20, with a $50 prix fixe dinner at 7:30 pm optional. Reservations: (212) 419-9331 or bmcgurn@algonquinhotel.com.

Described by Stephen Holden in The New York Times as "beautiful, poised, intelligent and gently humorous [who] delivers songs as sustained ethereal sighs," Maude counts among her mentors Michael Feinstein and Andrea Marcovicci. She comes from a line of show-business troupers. Her grandmother debuted on Broadway at 15 in the George White Scandals of 1926. Her parents, Brandon Maggart and Diane McAfee, are Broadway veterans who met while performing in the 1970 musical Applause. Her sister is pop singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.

A New York native, Maude remained in New York with her mother following her parents' separation. She majored in voice and dance at the High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts (the "Fame" school), and made her professional debut in Marshall Barer and Hugh Martin's A Happy Lot.