By Ron Cohen It was a mix of birthday party, benefit, cousins-club love fest and – most of all – sterling cabaret performance, when Kim Maresca took to the stage for a one-night stand at Feinsteins’s/54 Below. Maresca has just wound up a run of some 14 months Off-Broadway in Ruthless! The Musical, the…
September 10th, 2016 Alexandre Barranco (in the air) being lifted by Nicholas Montero photos by Corona Works by R. Pikser Shakespeare has been an inspiration for many, in theater, radio, film, or dance. His characters are specific to their place, time, and circumstances and, at the same time, so all-encompassing that we believe we…
Photo by Lou Montesano.. by Marc Miller Vivian Reed’s set at the Metropolitan Room runs about an hour twenty, and how she gets through it is anyone’s guess. A hard-working, old-school cabaret veteran with Broadway experience (a Tony nomination for Bubbling Brown Sugar), she displays an amazing, rangy voice, dances, growls, exhibits effusive…
by Eugene Paul Cirque du Soleil, the enchanting sidewalks of Quebec entertainers now grown into enchanting most of the globe with a staff of 4200 magicians, has launched a broadside at Broadway, regrettably shooting itself in the foot, not enough to kill it but hobbling it at what it does best: thrilling…
By Marc Miller At 88, Marilyn Maye’s voice is showing signs of age, and that’s a good thing. The upper ends of the diva’s belt range are getting a little raspy, a little throatier. It makes for less lovely, but more expressive, tones. Not that Maye’s powers of expression were ever muted. But now,…
Photos by Richard Termine by Stewart Schulman Expectations would run high for an evening of music honoring the creative partnership between Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, creators of some of the most successful and memorable international musicals of all time. Suffice it to say that any possible expectations were more than exceeded by The…
Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter Keddy by Julia Polinsky For sixteen years, Scott Siegel has created, written, directed, and produced Broadway By The Year at The Town Hall. Decade by decade, year by year, songs from Broadway shows get special treatment by superb singers and the best “little big band” ever. The most recent,…
Jason Robert Brown, Alfred Uhry, Steve Oney, Julie Burstein Photography by Melanie Einzig / Museum of Jewish Heritage by Rachel Goddard Bringing history to the stage was the theme for the evening and the subject was the Broadway musical Parade, the 1999 Tony Award Winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best…
by Marc Miller This was not your usual cabaret show. The Metropolitan Room website beckoned with just “Jason Graae” listed. That’s inducement enough; Graae is a veteran and expert cabaret performer/Broadway singer-actor/chronicler of the Great American Songbook, with a nimble tenor and a wicked sense of humor. But imagine one’s surprise upon arriving…
Len Cariou photos by Caro Rosegg By Julia Polinsky With Broadway and the Bard, Len Cariou, Mark Janas, and Barry Kleinbort, (who also directed) have conceived an evening of show tunes married to Shakespeare’s poetry. Janas, whose masterful accompaniments contribute hugely to Broadway and the Bard, plays a beautiful intro. Then, Cariou declaims…