BWW Review: Jill Kargman is the Quintessential New Yorker in her Café Carlyle Debut STAIRWAY TO CABARET
by Casey Mink
- Jan 30, 2017
Jill Kargman is a pleasant singer. Her voice is lovely, in fact, but that is not why audiences joined her inside the legendary Cafe Carlyle for a string of sold-out performances which began on January 17.
No, patrons made their way to the Upper East Side venue on this damp winter evening to hear Kargman's hilarious and often cringe-inducing war stories from her New York City upbringing, through her entrance into show business and Manhattan motherhood. Kargman, whose bawdy humor and unapologetic crudeness undoubtedly had some in the room blushing into their cocktails (her euphemism for the mouth, in particular, is a tickler) saliently strung the show together with influential songs from her past which she deemed 'wildly sexist,' and which she was 're-appropriating as a 42-year-old Jewish female.'
Barbara Cook, Billy Porter, Lea Salonga and More Honor Lena Horne in Concert Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 11, 2016
Schools That Can, a national nonprofit focused on improving urban education, will honor the life of jazz singer and civil rights activist Lena Horne with a star-studded, one-night-only benefit concert, held at New York's Symphony Space, located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025, tonight, January 11, 2016 at 7:30pm.
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