Lennie Watts News

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Susan Neuffer returns to the cabaret stage after a 10-year absence with a new show, "Apocalypse Wow", directed by MAC award winner Lennie Watts, with musical direction by Gerry Dieffenbach. Ms. Neuffer will appear at Don't Tell Mama, today, October 1 at 4:00 PM and Sunday, October 9 at 4:00 PM.  Cover charge: $20.00 plus a 2-drink minimum. ($5 discount for MAC and SAG-AFTRA) Reservations:  (212) 757-0788 and www.donttellmamanyc.com. 

Restaurant Row's beloved piano bar, Don't Tell Mama, continues its October Broadway 'Boozy' Brunch special guest line up this Sunday, October 9th, by welcoming Amorika Amoroso to the stage!!

Restaurant Row's beloved piano bar, Don't Tell Mama, continues its October Broadway "Boozy" Brunch special guest line up this Sunday, October 9th, by welcoming Amorika Amoroso to the stage!! Amorika graduated from Temple University, and began her career in Philadelphia as a backup singer with the pop-band The Tenth House before becoming the lead singer/writer for eTribe, an original hip-hop/rap band that toured colleges/venues along the East Coast.  Amorika trained with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC, wrote and performed for the Phila-based sketch comedy troupe, Hazmat and performed her one-woman show It Just Doesn't Matter in the 1812 Productions cabaret series, Perfectly Marvelous.  She has also appeared in national commercials, off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. Amorika recently won Mama's Next Big Act, where she be debuted her show The Whore Next Door.

For more than thirty years, Christopher Howatt could be seen on cabaret and theatrical stages behind the piano, serving as music director for the shows, "Dangerous Duets," the vocal group Boulevard East and for performers such as Tyne Daly, David Hyde Pierce, Rita Moreno, Al Tulane, John Tartaglia, Howard McGillin, Marlo Thomas and others. 

They say that home is where the heart is, and this show, with Musical Direction by Steven Ray Watkins and Direction by Lennie Watts proves just that. With a wide range of music, from Cyndi Lauper, to Jerry Herman, and The Muppets to The Spice Girls Castillo will make you feel right at home! Backup vocals by award winning vocalist Karen Mack and MAC award nominee Wendy Ann Russell. 

Restaurant Row's beloved piano bar, Don't Tell Mama, is thrilled to be kicking off their Broadway 'Boozy' Brunch special guest line up this Sunday, October 2nd! First up is blonde powerhouse, Krissy Ross.

Restaurant Row's beloved piano bar, Don't Tell Mama, has announced the first Broadway 'Boozy' Brunch's special guest lineup for October! 

Susan Neuffer returns to the cabaret stage after a 10-year absence with a new show, "Apocalypse Wow", directed by MAC award winner Lennie Watts, with musical direction by Gerry Dieffenbach. Ms. Neuffer will appear at Don't Tell Mama, on Saturday, October 1 at 4:00 PM and Sunday, October 9 at 4:00 PM.  Cover charge: $20.00 plus a 2-drink minimum. ($5 discount for MAC and SAG-AFTRA) Reservations:  (212) 757-0788 and www.donttellmamanyc.com. 

Those Girls, the dynamic vocal harmony group that debuted in New York last spring, returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City for two shows in September.

Cabaret Performer Meg Flather certainly didn't rest on her laurels after capturing two MAC Awards over the last three years (the 'Hanson' Award in 2014 and the Award for 'Best Original Song' in 2016). If some cabaret website or magazine comes up with an award next year for 'the hardest working cabaret star' over the past year, Flather will definitely be one of the candidates. Since early March, the charming singer/songwriter has been performing runs of two different shows at Don't Tell Mama, the famed cabaret hotspot on Restaurant Row in Manhattan. Flather has recently announced that she will be continuing her runs of two different shows at Don't Tell Mama, bringing back 'Carly & Me' on September 27 at 7 pm, and on November 7 at 7 pm, and reprising 'Portraits' for a fourth show on December 11 at 7 pm.

On Sunday September 25th and Saturday October 8th, Jim Speake brings back his acclaimed show, "Sweet Life the Show" to Don't Tell Mama. Both shows are at 4pm.

Those Girls, the dynamic vocal harmony group that debuted in New York last spring, returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City for two shows in September.

Fresh off her 2016 MAC Award for best original song after a successful revival of Portraits (1993) for Stephen Hanks' New York Cabaret's Greatest Hits series, Meg Flather paid tribute in Carly & Me to the 'artist who gave [her] her voice.' With her longtime musical director Paul Greenwood on piano and the versatile John Mettam on guitar and drums both singing backup, Flather performed hits and lesser-known songs alike from Carly Simon's oeuvre, along with a handful of original songs influenced by her musical heroine.

On the heels of her recent critically acclaimed show PORTRAITS (which premiered last December in the Stephen Hanks produced Metropolitan Room series NEW YORK CABARET'S GREATEST HITS and then enjoyed a three-show run at Don't Tell Mama), two-time MAC Award- winner Meg Flather will launch a three-show run of her new show CARLY & ME at Don't Tell Mama on July 31 at 4 pm (with additional shows on August 28 at 4 pm and September 27 at 7 pm). Flather's band features Paul Greenwood on piano and John Mettam on guitar and drums. Multiple award-winning Lennie Watts is the director. Don't Tell Mama is located at 343 West 46th Street. The cover for this show is $20 ($15 for MAC Members) with a 2-drink minimum.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

This June, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

Some of New York's top cabaret singers are putting on a show to raise money for God's Love We Deliver, the New York metropolitan area's leading provider of life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people living with severe illnesses, in honor of the late Joan Rivers.

Singer Helane Blumfield returns to Don't Tell Mama in May with a new, second solo show, "Call Me H!"

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today the 2016 summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development at the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Puppetry Conference, and Cabaret & Performance Conference.