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Cabaret Setlist: “Take Care of This House” – Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #8 in this running series. This installment of Cabaret Setlist is published on the day before what’s being called the most...
Cabaret Setlist: “Makin’ Whoopee” – Music by Walter Donaldson, Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #7 in this running series "Whoopee" on stage. Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s “Makin’ Whoopee,” first sung...
Cabaret Setlist: “End of the World” — Music and lyrics by Matt Alber
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #6 in this running series Part of my intention when starting this series was to take a fresh look at songs...
Cabaret Setlist: “It Never Was You” — Music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Maxwell Anderson
Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #5 in this running series Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s “It Never Was You” might be better known today were...
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...