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SINDROME DA MUSICAL, lo spettacolo con protagonista Manuel Frattini, reduce dal successo della scorsa stagione, ha debuttato per la prima volta nella Capitale - il 21 novembre, al Teatro Parioli - e tornera a grande richiesta al Teatro della Luna di Milano l'1 dicembre per poi proseguire il suo tour in altre citta della penisola. Lo spettacolo, un one man show scritto da Lena Biolcati e diretto da Alfonso Lambo, ruota intorno alla figura di Frattini (nel ruolo di se stesso) che - posseduto dai 'suoi' personaggi - decide su consiglio dei colleghi/amici di rivolgersi ad una psicologa per trovare una cura alla diagnosticata 'sindrome da musical.' Grazie a questa introspezione piscologica ripercorriamo i punti salienti della carriera di Manuel: dal debutto televisivo, al debutto teatrale in 'A Chorus Line' e cosi via fino all'ultimo spettacolo (Sindrome da Musical, appunto). La terapia fa effetto, ma proprio mentre il grigio della quotidianita sta per prendere il sopravvento sul protagonista, anche i suoi compagni - insieme con la dottoressa - vengono 'infettati' dalla sindrome… non grave ma molto, molto contagiosa! Il testo di Lena Biolcati - divertente e 'leggero' - e il pre-testo per mettere insieme le musiche che hanno fatto da colonna sonora alla vita di Frattini e - pur risultando forzato in determinati punti (non tutti i passaggi da parlato a cantato avvengono con naturalezza) - ha il pregio di essere politically correct e confezionato con buon gusto. Lo stesso dicasi della regia di Alfonso Lambo, accurata ma non sempre scorrevole (il primo atto fa fatica a decollare; gli interventi video, seppur spassosi, a lungo andare rallentano e smorzano l'attenzione del pubblico).

Legendary musician Barry Manilow performed 'Could It Be Magic,' along with Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams on the BBC's Children In Need Rocks 2013. Manilow also performed his classics Copacabana, I Am Your Child and 'It's A Miracle' at the event. Check out all the performances below!

Presented by Upright Cabaret (led by Chris Isaacson) which brings the best of Broadway and pop once a month to GLEH (Gay Lesbian Elder Housing) on Ivar in Hollywood in the form of a charitable concert to raise awareness of GLEH through song.

Broadway triple-threat, Darcie Roberts will make her TexARTS debut with two special performances, Nov. 2 & 3 at 7 p.m. She will be joined by pianist Dustin L. Struhall.

Some people, especially some cabaret reviewers and cabaret fans, might think it's lazy or a copout or both for a performer to keep recycling previous shows. But when the Café Carlyle comes a'callin' you: A) May not have enough time to create a totally new show or B) Want to pitch the big game with your best stuff or C) All of the above. Since I only started reviewing cabaret in late 2010, I missed the Laurie Beechman Theatre debut of Jennifer Sheehan's 2009 show You Made Me Love You: Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook, and missed it again when she brought it to the Metropolitan Room in 2010. So I, for one, am not complaining that she dusted off the critically praised set again (with the new slug 'Timeless Classics and New Treasures' from said Songbook show) for her debut last Saturday night at the prestigious Café Carlyle. Sheehan may have been booked for the room's new 10:45 late night series and not the prime time slot, but at least the Carlyle is giving opportunities to exciting young cabaret performers like Sheehan (and Marissa Mulder, who will make her debut at the room on November 7). With You Made Me Love You, Sheehan made everything old new again-at least for me.

Popular music icon Barry Manilow reflects on the recent out-of-town tryout of his new musical HARMONY and looks ahead to the future for the project - and his own forthcoming endeavors - as part of a new blog post on his official Facebook page.

The magical single and music video featuring The Great Tomsoni with special guests Penn & Teller (both acts recently featured on the new Arsenio Hall Show) and members of the Las Vegas "Jersey Boys' cast, is causing a stir on regional and internet video channels becoming a Halloween favorite in it's second year of airplay. This madcap Halloween video has been gaining traction on VideoDetective.com (powers videos on other sites including: Veoh, Allmusic.com, Starpulse.com with 11 million viewership),Toronto's MuchMusic.com, and New York's Video Hits and H20 Television with over 2 million viewership.

Tony Yazbeck will join the previously announced Christian Borle in Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, the opening production of New York City Center Encores! series, running for seven performances, February 5 - 9, 2014. Joshua Bergasse will choreograph the production, along with the previously announced Director John Rando and Music Director Rob Berman.

Downtown Cabaret Theatre has announced its Main Stage lineup for 2013-2014. Details below!

Tall and sexy 'matinee idol' handsome Broadway and London West End actor/singer Jeremiah James performed at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal Sunday September 22 with his all-new show Choose Love. As special guest star, James made a wise choice with his high school friend the beautiful Cherish Lee. So, with two very appealing looking artists onstage, how can you miss? The show was more than off to a grande start, before it began. Add as musical director the prolific David O, and it doesn't get much better than this. On bass Oliver Steinberg accompanied, and on percussion, Emiliano Almeida.

Dream Foundation, the first and largest national wish-granting organization for adults and their families battling life-threatening illness, has announced its 2013 Celebration of Dreams Gala honorees, Barry Manilow as well as CKE Restaurants, Inc. and its CEO, Andy Puzder.

New York's wonderfully-appointed cabaret hot-spot The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues) kicked off the fall season on the first evening of Autumn with celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy for a special edition of her Multi MAC award-winning Variety Show, Jamie deRoy & friends, last night.

Kick off the fall season on the first evening of Autumn with celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy for a special edition of her Multi MAC award-winning Variety Show, Jamie deRoy & friends, tonight, September 22nd (7PM) at New York's wonderfully-appointed cabaret hot-spot The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).

Barry Manilow and his lyrical partner Bruce Sussman are taking a swing at musicals again with Harmony. The show is based on a documentary that follows a Jewish actor in Berin that recruited five singers, 2 Jewish and 3 non-Jewish, to form a musical group that offered a very different and unprecedented live performance. They combined complex 6 part harmonies, vocal imitation of instruments, and even physical comedy onstage. The Comedian Harmonists, is what they called themselves, became a musical sensation in the late 1920s but coincidentally, their rise to fame coincided with Hitler's rise to power along with his restrictions against the Jewish artists in Germany.