Marilyn Maye News

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, August 11, 2009.

The star of Town Hall's 3rd Annual All Singin', All Dancin', the traditional finale to the Scott Siegel-created Broadway Summer Festival, didn't take the stage until the end of curtain calls, but his vibrant presence was felt throughout the evening.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) in the past week. The past week's events included Tony DeSare, Cast Party, and MetroJam!

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) in the past week. The past week's events included Tony DeSare, Marilyn Maye, Connie Francis, and Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons!

Birdland presented the legendary jazz singer Marilyn Maye in 'Something Cool' for two shows only, Tuesday, July 28 at 8:30 & 11pm. The event was Maye's debut at the historic music room.

After Monday night's Tituss Burgess Broadway at Birdland concert, everyone stuck around for a jam-packed Cast Party, hosted by Jim Caruso.

The Town Hall, New York City's landmark concert venue, concluded its acclaimed Broadway 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival with All Singin' All Dancin' on Monday, July 27th at 8PM.

Cabaret Cares the monthly benefit series that raises funds for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS and Help Is On The Way Today returns in August. Created in 2005 by cabaret producer Joseph Macchia Cabaret Cares was created to help raise funds for Broadway Cares. The series was then a weekly summer series at Helen's cabaret room that brought together the best of the Broadway and Cabaret community.

Birdland is proud to present the legendary jazz singer Marilyn Maye in 'Something Cool' for two shows only, Tuesday, July 28 at 8:30 & 11pm. This will be Maye's debut at the historic music room.

The Town Hall, New York City's landmark concert venue, concludes its acclaimed Broadway 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival with All Singin' All Dancin' on Monday, July 27th at 8PM. Created, written, hosted and directed by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall, All Singin' All Dancin' features Broadway show tunes sporting brand new choreography from Josh Prince (Shrek The Musical), who also co-directs, performed by today's Broadway song and dance stars.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret in the past week. The past week's events included Cast Party, The Oak Room Salon, and Sharon McNight at The Metropolitan Room!

The Town Hall, New York City's landmark concert venue, concludes its acclaimed Broadway 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival with All Singin' All Dancin' on Monday, July 27th at 8PM. Created, written, hosted and directed by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall, All Singin' All Dancin' features Broadway show tunes sporting brand new choreography from Josh Prince (Shrek The Musical), who also co-directs, performed by today's Broadway song and dance stars.

Birdland is proud to present the legendary jazz singer Marilyn Maye in 'Something Cool' for two shows only, Tuesday, July 28 at 8:30 & 11pm. This will be Maye's debut at the historic music room.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret in the past week. The past week's events included Marilyn Maye at the Metropolitan Room, an amazing Cast Party, and Veronica Klaus at the Duplex.

Jim Caruso hosted his guests and friends at The Cast Party on Monday, June 23rd at Birdland. In attendance were Martin Short, Paul Shaffer, Kristine W, Marilyn Maye and many more talents!

As she engineers one of the most exciting late-career surges ever seen, the unstoppable Marilyn Maye pays tribute to the great wordsmith Johnny Mercer in a brand new show that opened at the Metropolitan Room on Friday June 12th. Maye, in her sixth Metropolitan Room show (and eighth engagement) since she her triumphant return to New York in late 2006 (after a 16-year Gotham hiatus), premiered 'Mercer the Maye Way,' which plays a total of 9 times through June 21.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret in the past week. The past week's events included Dezur Kenna's 'In These Shoes,' another fabulous Cast Party and a special benefit show in Warwick, NY!

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, June 18, 2009.

While the casting of Phylicia Rashad as the manipulative, pill-addicted matriarch of Oklahoma's abundantly dysfunctionAl Weston family in Tracy Letts' epic comedy/drama, August: Osage County may seem an odd choice for those who only know the actress from her television roles as the elegant Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show and... uh... Clair Huxtable II on Cosby, she might be considered a natural for the part by New York playgoers who have seen her rip up the stage as the anguished and dominating Bernarda Alba or have observed her communicating silent volumes as a symbol of African heritage in Gem of the Ocean.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret in the past week. The past week's events included MetroJam, Ann Hampton Callaway at Feinstein's, and a great Cast Party!