Photo Coverage: 'Marilyn Maye's New Year's Eve Extravaganza' at Birdland Theater, NYC
Marilyn Maye Birdland New Years Eve 2020
"Marilyn Maye's New Years Eve Extravaganza" at Birdland Theater
New Year's week 2020
In a world that was fair and properly appreciated our singing legends, we'd be lining up and crossing our fingers for tickets to a Marilyn Maye concert at Carnegie Hall or on a Broadway stage. She certainly has the big band charts and musical connections for such a show. She has nine decades worth of American Songbook tunes, experience, and showbiz stories.
And the energy and vocal power this lady of song has could absolutely fill those halls and the seats within!
In true Maye tradition - she welcomes guests to the Cabaret, let's them know how much she Loves To See You Smile, and informs one and all that What The World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love.
She tributed some of her favorite composer/performers like Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Ray Charles, and most movingly her late friend Jerry Herman.
To hear her rousing finish of "Before The Parade Passes By" is to fully appreciate the joy that Jerry (& Marilyn) has brought into and gifted the world. The midnight toll of New Year's Eve itself brought a combination of "Auld Lang Syne" and a sing-along version of "The Best Of Times Is Now" along with champagne toasts with the audience and with her phenomenally talented trio featuring Billy Stritch on Piano, Tom Hubbard on Bass, and Daniel Glass on Drums. A little jazz birdie suggests Birdland hopes to bring Marilyn Maye back into their club for NEXT New Year's (2021!).
You would be advised to book your tickets now...
before Carnegie Hall gets wind of it!
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Photo Credit: Kevin Alvey
Daniel Glass, Billy Stritch, Marilyn Maye, Tom Hubbard
Jim Caruso, Julie Halston, Marilyn Maye, Billy Stritch
Veronica Swift, Gianni Valenti, Marilyn Maye
Birdland New Year's Eve Staff
Birdland New Year's Eve Staff
Billy Stritch, Marilyn Maye, Tom Hubbard, Daniel Glass
Marilyn Maye, Bill Charlap, Sandy Stewart
Gabrielle Stravelli, Marilyn Maye, Catherine Russell
Deborah Lynn, Susie Mosher, Marilyn Maye, Susie Clausen
Nicole Zuraitis, Marilyn Maye
Jan Horvath, Marcy Heisler, Marilyn Maye, Lynette Perry-McCollum, Brad Garside
Georgia Stitt, Marilyn Maye, Jason Robert Brown
Moni Penda
Billy Stritch, Julie Halston, Jim Caruso
Moni Penda, Kira Goidel
Billy Stritch, Kwin Valencia Morena, Daniel Glass
Gina Basnuh
Kira Goidel, Moni Penda, Caitie Winslow
Eddie Jacques
Tom Hubbard, Daniel Glass, Marilyn Maye
From This Author - Kevin Alvey
Kevin Alvey is an Actors Equity Union Member who spent the first part of his career as a singer/actor/dancer/director in musical theater and cabaret shows around the world and on t... (read more about this author)

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