Chanteuse YANNA AVIS Sings at Cafe Carlyle, Now thru 5/17

Yanna Avis will be making her Café Carlyle debut with a new show, titled In Love with Love which will feature her usual sophisticated European cabaret. The program will be multi-lingual from a variety of influences including Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollander and other classics. In Love with Love plays tonight, May 9-16, Thursdays and Fridays at 10:45 p.m. with dusical director David Shenton at the piano, Tony Macelli on bass Rich Mercurio on drums, and Will Holshouser on accordion.

The music charge is $25 on Thursdays and $30 on Fridays, with a $25 food and beverage minimum all evenings. For reservations, call: 212-744-1600. Cafe Carlyle is located at 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue.

Ms. Avis was born in Paris and trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. She performed in many classic and contemporary plays, including John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves" and "Boeing Boeing," as well as in a number of films and on television. She put her career on hold when she left Paris and moved to the United States to marry her American husband, the late Warren Avis. Ms. Avis has since appeared internationally as well, including in London at The Jermyn Street Theater, in Mexico City for the SIVAM Foundation and in New York at Florence Gould Hall for FIAF. On the New York nightclub scene, Ms. Avis has been presented at Feinstein's at the Regency, the Metropolitan Room, The Supper Club's former "King Kong Room," Maxim's, The Firebird, The Russian Tea Room, and "Doubles" at the Sherry-Netherland.

Ms. Avis's most recent recording, "Speak Love to Me," is in collaboration with pianist and musical director, Lee Musiker. Her previous albums are "Easy Come Easy Go" and "This Time It's Love."

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Photo Credit: Aaron Cobett