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CABARET LIFE NYC: Catch-Up Reviews From a Cabaret Spring - BATT, DEROW, FORREST, McNEIL, BARZEE, HENNESSEY
Back on April 1, when he posted his third compilation of delayed cabaret reviews from shows staged during the winter, BroadwayWorld.com's lead New York cabaret reviewer promised Number 4 would come with arrival of summer. Okay, so he missed his self-imposed deadline by a couple of weeks. but here's ...
BWW Reviews: Bryan Batt Rocks Rockwell
On Tuesday, July 2, Bryan Batt appeared at Rockwell on Vermont in Hollywood in Batt on a Hot Tin Roof. The show may have had nothing to do with Tennessee Williams, as Batt pointed out at the top, but boy oh boy did he SIZZLE....
BWW Reviews: Actress/Singer Polly Seale Seizes the Stage at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal
On Sunday June 30 I went to Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal to see Polly Seale do her one woman show, Cougar Mama!, The Sensual Evolution Revolution. Before I get to Ms. Seale, I would like to say that I 'discovered' a new appetizer (or side) to their tasty hamburgers, and that treat is the grill...
BWW Reviews: Nostalgic Natalie Douglas Soars Again at Birdland With SCRAPBOOK 2.0
Only two nights removed from the last of my three solo debut shows at the Metropolitan Room celebrating the Don McLean Songbook, I was already experiencing the post-performance depression I'd heard tell about from cabaret veterans. I needed someone to lift me up where I belonged, so my instincts too...
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe TAKE FIVE - THE DAVE BRUBECK STORY Brings West Coast Cool to Adelaide jazz lovers
Jazz pianist, Dave Brubeck, put together a quartet that played during the 1950s and 60s and that put out the first platinum selling jazz album, with the title Time Out. It contained the track, Take Five, which became the top selling instrumental piece of all time. Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Story ...
BWW Reviews: CANARY CABARET Sings At Gettysburg Fringe Festival
Gettysburg Community Theatre's contribution to the Fringe Festival is classic cabaret...
BWW Reviews: Jim Caruso's CAST PARTY - A Joyous Celebration of Las Vegas Talent
On June 19, the attraction in Cabaret Jazz was Jim Caruso's Cast Party, with Billy Stritch on the piano. It is not only a fun way to pass a few hours, but it is the perfect showcase for all the first-rate talent in Las Vegas....
BWW Reviews: Megan Hilty Kicks Off ZACH Theatre's Top Concerts Series
Megan Hilty took the stage at the ZACH's Topfer Theatre in Austin on Tuesday, June 18th in the first of many one night only concerts featuring Broadway stars, and the blonde bombshell kicked off the series with a smash....
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe HOMEMADE FUSION Generates Plenty of Laughs in Adelaide
Rachel Rai, Claire McEvoy, Brady Lloyd, and David Salter are the four singers for this performance, and they all know how to deliver comedy, many of the songs finding the laughs in highly inappropriate lifestyles and relationships....
BWW Reviews: Megan Hilty Shines At LI's Landmark On Main Street
It was certainly a wonderful time at Port Washington's Landmark On Main Street as Broadway vet and television star Megan Hilty took the stage. The hour long set consisted of songs from the Seattle native's career, some she just felt like singing, and, most importantly, from her wonderful album It Ha...
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe GIRL ON THE DRINK: FROM GUTTER TO GLAMOUR IN SATIRE AND SONG Takes Audience on a Journey Out of Darkness
Annie Siegmann is performing her latest cabaret performance at the very intimate venue, La Boheme, which ideally suits the even greater intimacy of her production. Siegmann has not touched alcohol for just over six months now, and so this is a very personal, revealing, and often dark tale of her str...
BWW Review: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe THE PIANO CHICK: SOLO AND BY REQUEST Tickles the Ivories
Becky Blake, who had the great Clemens Leske as one of her piano teachers, began her career, she told us, as a pianist at Adelaide's Hilton Hotel. She is now the pianist and singer with the very popular show band, Chunky Custard, as well as working in solo shows and small groups....
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe SONGS ONLY A MOTHER COULD LOVE Rocked the Cradle
Adelaide cabaret stalwart, Libby O'Donovan, takes a very different tack for her latest production, Songs Only a Mother Could Love, a collection of songs that she, and others, learned from their mothers as children. O'Donovan is one of the most highly skilled and much loved of Adelaide's cabaret comm...
BWW Reviews: BENDING THREADS Presents LEGENDS
The modern African-American cabaret quartet presents a set of classic jazz standards...
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe RETAIL THERAPY Sells Out in Adelaide
Harriet Allcroft came to the attention of Adelaide audiences when she appeared in a show case performance following one of the Adelaide Cabaret Summer Schools. She extended this short performance into a full length cabaret show which she titled Barely Legal. she is back with a new show based on her...
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Festival BARB JUNGR: STOCKPORT TO MEMPHIS Thrilled her Many Australian Fans
Barb Jungr made a very welcome return to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, her last visit having been in 2006, when she presented her unique interpretations of the songs of Bob Dillon. Together with her musical director, accompanist, and co-writer, Simon Wallace, her performance consisted of a combinat...
BWW Reviews: With Her New 54 Below Show, FAITH PRINCE Proves She Can Become a Cabaret Queen
About a third of the way into Tony Award-winner Faith Prince's new show at 54 Below last Wednesday night (the second of a five-show run over six days), it hit me that I could be watching a potential future cabaret legend in action. You know, in the Barbara Cook, Marilyn Maye, Andrea Marcovicci, Ann ...
BWW Reviews: Beck Belts Tunes of Legend in A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE
As Patsy would say, God bless Heather J. Beck. 'That girl can sing!' The songstress renders an uncanny vocal portrait of the country music legend up on the Broadway Palm stage in the early summer revue 'A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline.' She's 'Crazy' good....
BWW Reviews: Adelaide Cabaret Fringe - TEARS ON MY PILLOW: CRY ANOTHER DAY Brought Tears of Laughter
Rachel Rai and Claire McEvoy, aided and abetted by accompanist Aaron Nash at the piano, presented Tears on My Pillow: Cry Another Day, a sequel to their earlier hit show, Tears on My Pillow: Cry Harder, that was presented at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe and completely sold out....
BWW Reviews: Marieann Meringolo Is Solid But Over-'Orchestrated' at the Metropolitan Room
As a big fan of cabaret shows that incorporate horn sections (as does Terese Genecco's monthly 'Little Big Band' efforts at Iridium or Carole J. Bufford's 2012 show, speakeasy., which featured Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks), I was more than a little jazzed to hear that compelling Streisand sound...
BWW Reviews: Broadway Vet Shoshana Bean Sings Final Free Concert at Americana at Brand, 6/2
What happens when you cram together the star quality of Barbra, the riffs of Beyonce, Whitney, and Mariah, the sass of Stevie, and the deep, emotional soul of Aretha? You get Broadway star and old-school soul revivalist Shoshana Bean. A gifted powerhouse vocalist, Ms. Bean is one of those entertaine...
BWW Reviews: Force of Nature Lauren Robert Rocks Iridium Again
Four songs into Lauren Robert's show at Iridium this past Tuesday night (her third appearance at the jazz club since last August), she was already producing her usual pulsating, percussive, and passionate presentation of hard-driving blues and soulful pop when the show took a transformative turn and...
BWW Reviews: Lovely Laura Benanti Is A Dazzling 'Idiot's' Delight in Her New Show at 54 Below
Halfway through her opening night at 54 Below on Monday, Laura Benanti unveiled the evening's showstopper, a multi pop-song mix titled 'Inappropriate Medley.' No, Benanti didn't faux strip her way through the songs as if she was replaying her past role as Gypsy Rose Lee, but she frantically ripped t...
BWW Reviews: Eden Espinosa Charms Nashville Audiences...Cabaret Style
Come to the Cabaret…The Absinthe Cabaret, that is. Saturday night was the inaugural event of the newly formed Absinthe Cabaret in Franklin, TN. Executive Producer, Carolan Trbovich lined up a fantastic first event, with Broadway star Eden Espinosa headlining, and theatre and stage musician Johnny ...
BWW Reviews: 2012 MetroStar Talent Champ BILLIE ROE Delivers a Gritty, Winning Tribute to Tom Waits
You probably don't have to feel sorry for a mature, experienced female singer who decides to tackle the gritty music of Tom Waits and calls her show 1978 NYC Underground, but it was still tough not to feel for Billie Roe as she performed this week at the Metropolitan Room. Roe, who in 2011 offered t...
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