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Ava Nicole Frances: “Here’s Looking at You Kid”
Ava Nicole Frances has a big voice, a Broadway diva voice, a shake-the-rafters voice. It has served her well in appearances at open mics and variety shows around town, fast...
George Krissa: “Love Notes”
Webster’s defines "charm" as the following—noun: “a trait that fascinates, allures or delights”; verb: “to please, soothe, or delight by compelling attraction." If the dictionary should ever need an image...
“Julie Gold: Closing the Distance”
The mission statement of the annual Village Trip Festival is “To uplift, to entertain, and to celebrate the arts for all New Yorkers, their families, and all people from around...
Trevor Ashley: “Queen of the Moment”
At the risk of being asked to turn in my “gay card,” I must confess that I do not follow Drag Race or any of its offspring. I occasionally catch...
Jason Henderson: “Getting to Noël You”
One of the deprivations of growing up in New Hampshire was that I was never exposed to more sophisticated entertainments in general, and Sir Noël Coward in particular. It was...
CD Review: Hannah Gill’s “Everybody Loves a Lover”
Sometimes it’s a simple, refreshing delight when a singer records an album that is not out to re-invent the wheel but to honor the great legacy of American pop and...
Club Review: Tony Yazbeck
To translate the energy, the heart, the style, the artistry and the power of a Broadway star performance into the intimate surroundings of a cabaret (even as large and stylishly...
Jason Danieley’s “Without a Song”
In 1972, director Bernardo Bertolucci released his controversial erotic drama, Last Tango in Paris which received an X rating for its explicit sex scenes between Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider....
Meg Flather’s “Hammerstein & Sondheim— Carefully Taught”
It seems that since the passing of iconic Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, not a week has gone by without some new revue, or tribute, or memorial in his honor. Of...
Maud Hixson’s “Permanent Moonlight—Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett”
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was a man of many sides—a renowned composer of opera, film scores, jazz and pop, a lyricist of wit and depth, a cook, a mean scrabble...