Scott Cady News

It's April 1st. Do you know when your Spring is coming? During another longggggg New York winter, the good news is that there were a ton of warming cabaret shows. The bad news is that there were so many, even during this seemingly endless winter our intrepid reviewer Stephen Hanks didn't have enough time to review them all right after the performances. So in what is becoming a seasonal ritual, here he offers yet another compilation of 13 'catch-up' cabaret show reviews.

On Saturday February 23, triple-threat actress/singer/dancer Bebe Neuwirth presented her critically-acclaimed cabaret act Stories with Piano at Valley Performing Arts Center, Northridge. Miss Neuwirth has a legion of fans for her two-time Emmy Award winning portrayal of Frasier's cold, bitchy, calculating ex-wife Lilith on TV's Cheers and Frasier and from Broadway where she won two Tonys for her unforgettable performances in Sweet Charity and Chicago. A stellar actress, Neuwirth commands the stage with her sheer presence: no easy task for a lady so petite. But, it goes far beyond aura. There are gusts of unbridled passion conveyed, as she ferociously attacks the story of each song in character, sometimes alone, sometimes essaying two roles. Kander & Ebb, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Sondhiem, Tom Waits and soon Jacques Brel are the musical idols, all vividly brought to life by Neuwirth's brutal honesty and evocatively burning emotional force.

Today, February 3 at 5 p.m., in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, Carnegie Hall gives Broadway fans the exclusive opportunity to sing along with the brightest stars of today at a FREE Community Sing presented by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. Mandy Gonzalez, Rachel Potter, Caesar Samayoa, and many more join Leslie Stifelman, musical director and conductor of Chicago: The Musical, and host Thomas Cabaniss in guiding the audience through the show-stopping, electrifying numbers of your most beloved Broadway musicals including Hair, West Side Story, Rent, and LES MISERABLES.

On Sunday, February 3 at 5 p.m., in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, Carnegie Hall gives Broadway fans the exclusive opportunity to sing along with the brightest stars of today at a FREE Community Sing presented by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. Mandy Gonzalez, Rachel Potter, Caesar Samayoa, and many more join Leslie Stifelman, musical director and conductor of Chicago: The Musical, and host Thomas Cabaniss in guiding the audience through the show-stopping, electrifying numbers of your most beloved Broadway musicals including Hair, West Side Story, Rent, and LES MISERABLES.

BUCKS COUNTY CABARET, a one-night-only concert featuring stage and screen stars Bebe Neuwirth and Malcolm Gets, raised an inspiring $162,100 in its first edition produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Amra-Faye Wright, who is currently starring as Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical Chicago, returned to Feinstein's at Loews Regency, April 3 and 5, to perform her celebrated cabaret act.

Amra-Faye Wright, who is currently starring as Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical Chicago, is returning to Feinstein's at Loews Regency April 03 and 05 to perform her celebrated cabaret act.

I loved taking my children to Barnes & Noble and watching their mesmerized faces as a story was read to them by a good narrator. So it was as I looked upon the faces of the audience at Bebe Neuwirth's show at Feinstein's appropriately named 'Stories With Piano#3.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26. Her new show will include songs by Stephen Sondheim, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Irving Berlin and Kander & Ebb. She will be joined by Musical director Scott Cady on piano. All shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

The Leopard Works Records today announced the new album, Porcelain, the first from Broadway star Bebe Neuwirth.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26. Her new show will include songs by Stephen Sondheim, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Irving Berlin and Kander & Ebb. She will be joined by Musical director Scott Cady on piano. All shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts hosts an evening with Broadway star Bebe Neuwirth and her solo act, 'Stories with Piano,' October 15 at 8pm at the Virgina G. Piper Theatre.

Broadway Star Bebe Neuwirth will be performing at the Virginia G. Piper Theater on Saturday, October 15, 2011, 8 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts hosts an evening with Broadway star Bebe Neuwirth and her solo act, 'Stories with Piano,' October 15 at 8pm at the Virgina G. Piper Theatre.

Broadway Star Bebe Neuwirth will be performing at the Virginia G. Piper Theater on Saturday, October 15, 2011, 8 p.m.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Summer 2011 season with a specially-priced CD release event for Tony Award nominated Broadway star KATE BALDWIN to launch her new PS Classics CD She Loves Him: Live at Feinstein's on Thursday, July 14 at 8:30 PM.