Cabaret Interviews - Page 12

A new company connects Broadway actors with the public who wants to hire them for their private events and some of the talents from BROADWAY BOOKER are gathering at Birdland to celebrate the return of live entertainment....

Today we kick off the series with my conversation with musical director, Tracy Stark. She is one of the most prolific musical directors on the NY scene, playing upwards of 75-100 shows a year. She is the winner of 11 MAC awards in addition to the Bistro award and the Dottie Burman Songwriter of the ...

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming and renowned journalist and singer Ari Shapiro are the dazzling stage duo the world has been waiting for. With unstoppable chemistry, endless charm, and talent for eons, the pair will be bringing their show Och & Oy! A Considered Cabaret to stages across the country. ...

Melissa Errioc is home in New York and home at 54 Below, and the sold-out shows there are proof that she was missed....

When his colleague and friend, Matt Baker, took a break from the piano to pick up a camera, Jim Caruso got inspired to take a break from the microphone and pick up a typewriter....

There are some people who just have a passion for living. Passion is a word that applies to everything Christine Andreas touches. She has been bewitching Broadway audiences since she first appeared as the wicked maid Nancy in Angel Street. Her turns in much-heralded revivals of My Fair Lady, Oklahom...

For 20 years, Orfeh and Andy Karl have been making beautiful music together. But no need to take my word for it. You can check it out for yourself this week when they return to Feinstein’s 54 Below with their show LEGALLY BOUND. It is an encore presentation of the show they did in 2017 that’s been r...

Virtuosa Violinist Marissa Licata is ready to make her solo show debut, and the lucky folks at Birdland are the ones getting prepped for tomorrow night's STRINGS ON FIRE...

When it comes to the art of cabaret, no one has been more successful or more prolific than Michael Feinstein. His influence is literally everywhere you look. In three decades he has gone from a piano bar performer to one of the most driving forces in the music business, the impresario of a cabaret e...

Although Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller have been in show business for a very long time, their close friendship is not even a decade old yet. Fans frequently mistake them for each other. This is the premise of their show SIN TWISTERS which will open at 54 Below Monday, August 16. The title, of course...

Lillias White has an artistic home-away-from-home at The Green Room 42, and with a new album to celebrate, the club that calls her their Main Muse is the perfect place to party....

The edgy, inquisitive, exploratory actress is ready to go out on her biggest artist limb yet, creating her first-ever cabaret show for 54 Below, and, boy, is she ready....

New York nightlife is making a slow and steady return to the City that Never Sleeps. One of the city's most famous jazz institutions, Birdland is making a long-anticipated return to live performances next week with one of New York's most elegant and beloved piano men, Billy Stritch. Birdland has bee...

The singer-songwriter with the voice of gold debuts her first solo show in New York twice in one weekend, starting tonight... and she has a lot to say with the music she has chosen to introduce herself to the city. And it's all beautiful....

David Sabella may not be singing any songs from the musical Jekyll and Hyde, but that doesn't mean this isn't his moment... because it is. And he's going to make the most of it, while reclaiming his joy....

The star of Broadway's ON YOUR FEET! returns to Feinstein's with a new show built only around joy, which is something that Mauricio Martinez seems to really understand....

Early in her career Deborah Stone used her body as a dancer in demand and left her voice to its own devices. Now, the singing actress from The Snarks has found that her voice works just as well when set to music as it does when reciting dialogue, and the cabaret community has taken to that voice li...

Becca Kidwell knew that her first show after the show business shut down would have to be special, so she got some of her most trusted friends and colleagues to get involved... in a very interesting way. Welcome to the Show Of Dares....

The petite diva with the powerful voice and everything else is stepping out onto the 54 Below stage without her partner in crime and life, and the fans couldn't grab the tickets up fast enough. She is Orfeh. Hear her Roar....

Even when vacationing in Vermont, the creator and lead mentor at BROADWAY WORKSHOP is still working, helping to shape and mold the lives of the next generation of theater craftspeople... and talking to Broadway World about the plethora of artists playing nightclubs in shows helmed by himself....

The award-winning singing actor is getting up on the stage with his band for the first time in a long time and he has a brand new show filled with music to dance to, all in the name of celebration....

When Glenn Close and Ted Nash had the idea to collaborate on a jazz piece about TRANSFORMATION, they had no idea how close to home his son Eli's story would touch members of the trans community. Now, with a CD release, they can reach more lives than ever before....

In part two of our Broadway World Cabaret interview with these drag sisters, we learn about how their past is going to influence their future, and which Silver Screen goddess each lady obsesses over....

Gloria Swansong is a drag artist with a focus on the goddesses of the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties. Fellow drag performer Maxie Factor's focus is almost exclusively the divas of the Sixties. One is a costumer, the other is a hairstylist. It's kind of like they were destined for each other, and ...

He may be Manhattan's leading multi-hyphenate, but on June 30th Michael Kushner will take off all the other hats in favor of his ACTOR hat, when he spends an hour or so celebrating Gay Pride with his Pride playlist at 54 Below....

Though the Night of a Thousand Judys will have to be virtual this year, it allows amazing talent like Alan Cumming to participate from another state... like so many others who want to be a part of this important charitable concert....

The recent first-time Tony nominee is ready for another first: his own solo show....

The creator of Funk-liberation, Britton Smith and his band THE STING gear up for a splashy new show opening at 54 Below in one week's time, and he is ready to sing out the word, and make some people sweaty....

After making a splashy smash with her Whitney Houston tribute show, Nicole Henry returns to the scene of the shine with a new nightclub act appropriately titled FEELING GOOD. Because she is....

Jaime Lozano can't wait to be back on the live stage but in the meantime fans can enjoy him virtually, thanks to Joe's Pub....

With her recent appearance at Frank E. Campbell's funeral home (You read that right) Karen Mason has returned to the stage. There's no stopping her, now, and the icon is ready to make up for lost time....

After thirty-seven years together, Brad Hurtado and Sean Martin Hingston are finally building their dream house, and one little TikTok video gave them an international audience and a not-quite DIY show for 2021....

In the name of cutting his suit to fit his cloth, Jim David put himself to good use in the quarantine and came out with a smash-hit comedy CD that is selling like hotcakes....

The brothers who started as a duo act, are on separate career paths right now, and they stop by Broadway World Cabaret to share all the news... and some sweet words about their sweet Mom....

Marilyn Maye has played big rooms, small rooms, and even tents and driveways, but on May 8th she goes virtual with a new show from Feinstein's/54 Below... and it is worth seeing....

It's time to try a new form of acting, and that's what Austin Pendleton is all about. On May 6th he will join the MetropolitanZoom family as he and Barbara Bleier perform their first ever virtual cabaret! Not to be missed....

From Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price and streaming platform Stellar comes the upcoming event TITANIQUE: THE MAIDEN VOYAGE CONCERT, a musical parody of the larger-than-life film, featuring the iconic song catalog of everyone's favorite French-Canadian diva. ...

With years of cabaret experiences behind them, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Barbara Maier Gustern and Paul Greenwood are taking to the 'net for their latest cabaret show, and Bleier has a lot to say about it....

Jeremy Jordan has taken his one-man show CARRY ON and turned it into a film that debuts online on May 6th, for everyone in the world to see. And they should....

New-ness is always fun, and though she has already been around a few years and people know her, Anais Reno is as shiny as a new penny... and as seasoned as one of her jazz idols. Her debut album, Lovesome Thing, is getting some well deserved attention, and this chat with her goes a little deeper in...