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Cabaret Setlist: “Two for the Road” — Music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #4 in this running series The cable came directly from Audrey Hepburn, who was in France shooting her latest film, with...
Cabaret Setlist: “California Nights” — Music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Howard Liebling
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #3 in this running series. Unlike the first two songs we’ve examined in Cabaret Setlist (Rodgers & Hart’s “Little Girl Blue”...
Cabaret Setlist: “Sand” – Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #2 in this new running series. Few among us dispute the idea that Stephen Sondheim is the most important living American...
Cabaret Setlist: Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook
Song #1 in this new running series: “Little Girl Blue” – Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart When it comes to cabaret repertoire, I can think of...
Marta Sanders and Leanne Borghesi
Showbroads—a battling-diva entertainment with Marta Sanders and Leanne Borghesi—appeared late last year at Birdland. Recently, the lively show, under the direction of Nicolas Minas, was repeated at the same venue....
Emily Koch
Why do we hold on to souvenirs of childhood and adolescence, even when these artifacts are highly embarrassing? Pictures from the junior prom that look like Clearasil commercials, notebooks crammed...
Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation!
The first version of writer/director Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway was staged 38 years ago, and the hardy satirical revue has gone through various permutations over the decades. The latest version—Forbidden...
Goldie Dver
After a decade away from cabaret performing, Goldie Dver returns to the stage in an energetic and polished show called Back in Mama's Arms (directed by James Beaman). The "Mama"...
Julie Reyburn
Julie Reyburn has been relatively inactive in the cabaret scene in recent years, but that doesn't mean that she has been otherwise idle. She's been busy raising children and working...
Michele Brourman
Watching Michele Brourman play to a packed house in a recent one-nighter at Birdland Theater, I felt that I gained a deeper understanding of the work of singer-pianists in cabaret...