Hold on! She returns to open the fabulous Summer Season in her 6th engagement in The Royal Room at The Colony. Cabaret icon and 2009 Nightlife Award winner Baby Jane Dexter brings with her critically acclaimed show, IF... (what might have been...what could have been...what is!) to The Royal Room at The Colony beginning May 22 through May 30. The schedule is as follows: May 22-23 (Fri-Sat) and May 29-30 (Fri-Sat). All shows are at 8:00 PM.
Praised by Backstage Magazine for 'one of those rare voices with a soothing, almost hypnotic quality' award winning vocalist and actress Jill O?Hara, the original female lead in the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon Broadway musical Promises, Promises, reunites with Burt Bacharach at the annual spring gala for 92nd Street Y. What The World Needs Now?The Music of Burt Bacharach will take place at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, Monday, May 18. Jill introduced the Bacharach/David pop classics I?ll Never Fall In Love Again, Knowing When To Leave and Whoever You Are I Love You. O?Hara went on to win a Tony nomination, the Theater World Award and New Jersey Journal Award for Best Actress In A Musical, while the cast album earned a Grammy Award. The concert event will also feature performances by Dionne Warwick, Sarah Dash and Elvis Costello. Proceeds from the Spring Gala support the 92nd Street Y's myriad of programs. Tickets are available by calling 212-415-5488 or online at www.92Y.org.
Landmark on Main Street is pleased to present an evening of some of the most memorable songs ever written by the incomparable Cole Porter as interpreted by Jeff Harnar on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 8 PM.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND THE RE-INVENTION OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER, with Jac Alder and Steven Jones
'The words ?intellectual' and ?Broadway musical' were seldom mentioned in the same breath until the era of Stephen Sondheim, the dominant artistic force in the American musical theater since the 1970's,' wrote Stephen Holden recently in The New York Times
March 2, 2009 Los Angeles - The Off-Broadway hit ?Back to Bacharach and David? will have a short 23 performance engagement at The Music Box @ Fonda April 15 to May 17 (opening April 19).
Landmark on Main Street is pleased to present an evening of some of the most memorable songs ever written by the incomparable Cole Porter as interpreted by Jeff Harnar on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 8 PM.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND THE RE-INVENTION OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER, with Jac Alder and Steven Jones
'The words ?intellectual' and ?Broadway musical' were seldom mentioned in the same breath until the era of Stephen Sondheim, the dominant artistic force in the American musical theater since the 1970's,' wrote Stephen Holden recently in The New York Times
This month the Metropolitan Room welcomes back two great singers with vastly different styles and personas - the garrulous blues mamma Baby Jane Dexter, who reprises 'If' by popular demand for nine shows from April 16 to May 2, and the cosmopolitan chanteuse Anna Bergman, who brings her Richard Rodgers tribute show, 'My Heart Stood Still,' for four shows spanning two weeks, from April 18 to April 29.
The Off-Broadway hit ?Back to Bacharach and David? will have a short 23 performance engagement at The Music Box @ Fonda April 15 to May 17 (opening April 19).
?Back to Bacharach and David? is a night of amazing voices, comedy, and a tribute to the brilliant songs that Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote from 1960 to 1970.
Judith Owen, the Welsh singer-songwriter who continues to garner praise from discerning critics, begins an exclusive, two-week engagement at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, for two weeks beginning March 25.
Theatre World Award-winner Mary Birdsong ('Reno 911!'), 'American Idol' and Broadway star Diana DeGarmo, West End musical actor and 'American idol' contestant Tom Lowe, and musical and film actress Tressa Thomas have been cast in 'Back to Bacharach and David,' the Off-Broadway hit having a 23-performance limited engagement, April 15 to May 17 (press opening April 19) at The Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood.
The British singing sensation Barb Jungr, who just earned Time Out NY's Best of the Year honors for her two Metropolitan Room shows in 2008, is moving uptown to the Caf? Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel where she premieres a brand new act from March 11 to 28. In 'The Men I Love' Jungr promises to reach beyond our common assumptions about the male species to appreciate the surprises of men and manhood while marveling at the astonishing topographic variety of what she calls 'the male terrain.'
The composers and songwriters she's drawing her inspiration from are a diverse lot. She and her New York music director Charlie Giordano are constructing a show with songs by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon and Harry Nilsson among others. All the songs in the show Jungr has not heretofore performed in New York. Playing for three weeks 'The Men I Love' is Ms. Jungr's fifth New York engagement since debuting at the Metropolitan Room in January 2007. It's here that she has emerged as one of this town's most original and forceful singer-entertainers.
In his New York Times assessment of Jungr's artistry at the time, Stephen Holden said, 'She is a gregarious stage personality with a comic streak in the tradition of the English music hall (...) She is a wonderful comic storyteller too. A typical show is a series of emotional hairpin turns with spontaneous patter that can break you up laughing. In the next moment you may find yourself choking back tears.' He also calls her 'a complete entertainer.'
March 2, 2009 Los Angeles - The Off-Broadway hit ?Back to Bacharach and David? will have a short 23 performance engagement at The Music Box @ Fonda April 15 to May 17 (opening April 19).
Judith Owen, the Welsh singer-songwriter who continues to garner praise from discerning critics, begins an exclusive, two-week engagement at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, for two weeks beginning March 25.
Birdland (315 West 44th Street ? between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of March.
Michael Winther, vocals with Dan Tepfer, piano present 'Love Songs'
Michael Winther sports a considerable history in Broadway and off-Broadway musicals, as well as a concert vocalist in and out of the Big Apple. His cabaret show at the Metropolitan Room reveals an amiable, fresh-faced vocalist whose theater background underlies his expressive delivery of the mixture of newer songs and standards. There's also a mischievous quality he brings to the fore with his medley of Harburg and Arlen's Down With Love and Cahn and Van Heusen's Love Is a Bore. There's plenty to admire about Michael Winther.
The British singing sensation Barb Jungr, who just earned Time Out NY's Best of the Year honors for her two Metropolitan Room shows in 2008, is moving uptown to the Caf? Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel where she premieres a brand new act from March 11 to 28. In 'The Men I Love' Jungr promises to reach beyond our common assumptions about the male species to appreciate the surprises of men and manhood while marveling at the astonishing topographic variety of what she calls 'the male terrain.'
The composers and songwriters she's drawing her inspiration from are a diverse lot. She and her New York music director Charlie Giordano are constructing a show with songs by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon and Harry Nilsson among others. All the songs in the show Jungr has not heretofore performed in New York. Playing for three weeks 'The Men I Love' is Ms. Jungr's fifth New York engagement since debuting at the Metropolitan Room in January 2007. It's here that she has emerged as one of this town's most original and forceful singer-entertainers.
In his New York Times assessment of Jungr's artistry at the time, Stephen Holden said, 'She is a gregarious stage personality with a comic streak in the tradition of the English music hall (...) She is a wonderful comic storyteller too. A typical show is a series of emotional hairpin turns with spontaneous patter that can break you up laughing. In the next moment you may find yourself choking back tears.' He also calls her 'a complete entertainer.'
On Monday, January 26 at 7 PM, the 7th Annual Nightlife Awards Concert, hailed as 'The Nightclub World's Equivalent of the Tony's' by Stephen Holden of the New York Times, returns once again with the most -- and the best -- entertainment of any awards show in the world. The reason is simple: there are no acceptance speeches at The Nightlife Awards.
Michael Winther, vocals with Dan Tepfer, piano present 'Love Songs'
Michael Winther sports a considerable history in Broadway and off-Broadway musicals, as well as a concert vocalist in and out of the Big Apple. His cabaret show at the Metropolitan Room reveals an amiable, fresh-faced vocalist whose theater background underlies his expressive delivery of the mixture of newer songs and standards. There's also a mischievous quality he brings to the fore with his medley of Harburg and Arlen's Down With Love and Cahn and Van Heusen's Love Is a Bore. There's plenty to admire about Michael Winther.
Eartha Kitt passed after a long battle against colon cancer on Christmas Day, 2008 in Weston, Connecticut at the age of 81. To remember the musical superstar, BWW Photographer Walter McBride has assembled a collection of his favorite photos that he was honored to be able to take of the entertainment legend. BroadwayWorld.com is proud to share them with you in memory of the woman and talent that was Eartha Kitt.
