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Cabaret Setlist: Taking a Chance on Songs (Part 1)—Byron St. Cyr Dares with “The Miller’s Son” (Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Article #19 in this ongoing series. Usually, for these Cabaret Setlist articles, I’ll look at a song and trace its creation, along...
Cabaret Setlist: “Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon” — Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Webb
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Article # 18 in this ongoing series. With richer-than-God entrepreneurs—Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson—pioneering commercial flights into space these days,...
Cabaret Setlist: “Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love” — Music by Henry Tobias, Lyrics by Billy Rose
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Article #17 in this ongoing series We learned recently that Beanie Feldstein will headline next year in a Broadway revival of 1964’s...
Return Engagements: Singer Meg Flather Remains Stuck with a Thing Called Hope
(Third and final installment of a limited series on Return Engagements.) Meg Flather On February 21, 2020, singer-songwriter Meg Flather performed her first-ever gig at Manhattan’s...
Return Engagements: Spoken-Word Performer Joe Gulla Inches His Way Back to the Spotlight
(Article #2 in a limited series on "Return Engagements.") “You do all this stuff to build momentum,” says monologist and playwright Joe Gulla, “and when you get some, you kind...
Cabaret Setlist: “He’s a Runner” — Music and Lyrics by Laura Nyro
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Article # 16 in this ongoing series. There are auspicious recording debuts, and then there is More Than a New Discovery, an...
Return Engagements: John Lloyd Young Will Ride the Disco ‘Round in His Return to Live Performance
(Article #1 in a limited series on "Return Engagements.") John Lloyd Young is ready to boogie on down. (Then again, who isn’t?) The Tony-winning singer-actor, who starred as Frankie Valli of...
“The Reason to Sing — A Guide to Acting While Singing”: A Chat with Craig Carnelia About His New Book
Craig Carnelia (Photo: Michael Ian) Between 1992 and 2017, singer and composer/lyricist Craig Carnelia (Working, Sweet Smell of Success) taught acting classes for singers in a...
Cabaret Setlist: “Blue Skies” — Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Article #15 in this ongoing series. The simple-yet-engaging standard “Blue Skies” has the distinction of being the most successful Irving Berlin number ever to...
Now You’ll Know: Rick Pender’s “The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia”
All right, so you’ve read pretty much everything that’s ever been written about American songwriter Stephen Sondheim, and you’re thinking: Why on earth would I need to have something called...