Australian singer Robert Green makes his NYC solo cabaret debut with Isn't It Romantic?, a tribute to Lorenz Hart, one of the 20th century’s great lyricists. Hugely prolific, many of Hart’s songs endure because they continue to speak to the human condition, which despite the fact that we now live in the age of AI and chatGPT, hasn’t really changed much in 5,000 years. We continue to fall in love, out of love, yearn and pine for it. Hart’s often bittersweet lyrics, perhaps born of his own experience, continue to strike a chord, and his humor and ingenious rhymes still make us laugh. While Hart’s work endures, the story of his life is not so well known. We all know what happened when Harry met Sally, but what happened when Larry met Dick? How did they become Rodgers and Hart? This tender, light-hearted tribute to Lorenz Hart, the lyricist in this great songwriting partnership with Richard Rodgers, features the songs “My Funny Valentine,” “Blue Moon,” “The Lady Is A Tramp,” and more! Robert Green has been singing in cabaret for many years. Born in Sydney, he has performed in many of that city’s leading cabaret rooms, including El Rocco, Villa Caprese, the Side On Café, Café de Lane and Pastel’s Coffee Palace. Green’s show Let’s Do It – a salute to two of his specialties, Noël Coward and Cole Porter – played the 2000 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Green has also acted, notably in the Genesian Theatre’s 2011 production of The Fantasticks. His theme song is “Shall We Dance” from The King and I, in a version arranged by the New York-based pianist David Gaines. From 2012-2013, Green performed his show Here and Now - The Songs of Noël Coward. (See the attached video montage of Here and Now, performed by Green with Musical Director Andrew Sussman at El Rocco, Sydney.) His training includes the Art of Cabaret course at the Perry Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Colorado USA in 2006 (with Barry Kleinbort, Andrea Marcovicci, David Gaines, Shelly Markham, Chris Denny and Karen Mason), and an Il Chiostro/Singnasium workshop in Venice in 2023 (with Lenny Watts and Tracy Stark) that led to his NYC cabaret debut in the group show “When in Venice…” at Don’t Tell Mama in September 2024. Friday, May 23 @ 7:00 pm Vocals: Robert Green Musical Director / Piano: David Gaines Director: Barry Kleinbort Don’t Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th Street, NYC 10036, donttellmamanyc.com $20 cover + $20 two-drink minimum per person. Food menu available. CASH ONLY. Reservations: https://shows.donttellmamanyc.com/9053-robert-green-isn-t-it-romantic-5-23-25
Cast and Creative team for Robert Green: Isn't It Romantic? at Don't Tell Mama
Cast
Robert Green
Vocalist
Robert Green has been singing in cabaret for many years. Born in Sydney, he has performed in many of that city’s leading cabaret rooms, including El Rocco, Villa Caprese, the Side On Café, Café de Lane and Pastel’s Coffee Palace. Green’s show Let’s Do It – a salute to two of his specialties, Noël Coward and Cole Porter – played the 2000 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Green has also acted, notably in the Genesian Theatre’s 2011 production of The Fantasticks. His theme song is “Shall We Dance” from The King and I, in a version arranged by the New York-based pianist David Gaines. His training includes the Art of Cabaret course at the Perry Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Colorado USA in 2006 (with Barry Kleinbort, Andrea Marcovicci, David Gaines, Shelly Markham, Chris Denny and Karen Mason), and an Il Chiostro/Singnasium workshop in Venice in 2023 (with Lenny Watts and Tracy Stark) that led to his NYC cabaret debut in the group show When in Venice… at Don’t Tell Mama in September 2024. More info: robertgreencabaret.com.au
David Gaines
Musical Director/Piano
David Gaines has worked as musical director for such artists as Penny Fuller, Jeff Harnar, Andrea Marcovicci, and Karen Mason, among many others. As a pianist/musical director he has performed at venues in New York including Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Theater credits include Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre, the Public Theater, and Westport Country Playhouse. Composer credits include the score for the short film, The Poets. Gaines has been on the faculty at Juilliard since 2010.
Creative Team
Barry Kleinbort
Director
Barry Kleinbort has worked as a director, composer, lyricist, and librettist, earning the prestigious Edward Kleban Foundation Award for Lyric Writing, two Gilman-Gonzalez Musical Theatre Commendations Award, the ASCAP/Jamie deRoy award for songwriting, the Second Stage Constance Klinsky musical theater award, two Back Stage Bistro awards, ten Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) awards, and two Cable “Telly” awards for his efforts. He has also been a three-time finalist for the Fred Ebb Musical Foundation award. Mr. Kleinbort adapted and directed the New York premiere of Bob Merrill’s musical The Prince of Grand Street starring Mike Burstyn for the Jewish Rep, and John Epperson’s well received autobiographical evening Show Trash at the Studio Theater in Washington D.C. He wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Was (based on Geoff Ryman’s cult classic with music by Joseph Thalken), which was the inaugural production of the American Music Theater Project in Chicago, and which has also been seen at the Human Race Theater in Dayton, Ohio. He wrote the incidental music and songs for the off-Broadway production of Second Avenue by Allan Knee and the book, music and lyrics for Angelina, a musical based on That Summer – That Fall by Frank D. Gilroy. As librettist, he co-wrote with David Levy Perfect Harmony, a musical play about the lives of the Barry Sisters. His latest projects include providing the English songs (music and lyrics) for a bilingual musical revue called Metropolita(i)n (which has played successfully in both Paris and New York) and doing the book, music and lyrics for 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti, based on a play by Jeffrey Hatcher.
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