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Jennifer Bangs
In her new show at Don't Tell Mama, She Bangs, She Bangs: Marriage, Adultery, Texas & Jesus, actress-singer Jennifer Bangs delivers one of the most soul-baring cabaret programs I have...
Cynthia Crane
More than once in This Is a Changing World, My Dear, her recent show at Don't Tell Mama, Cynthia Crane referred to herself as a "walking obsolescence." But, in fact,...
Michael Cummings
At one point in his September 14 show at the Triad, Michael Cummings acknowledged friends and family in attendance. When he had finished, it seemed he'd greeted nearly everyone in...
Daniel Reichard
The theme of Summer Playlist—Daniel Reichard's recent show at the Birdland Theater—was the mix tape. In decades past, Reichard, like many young music lovers, would program these customized song collections...
Lucie Arnaz
It's serendipitous, I believe, that the first lyrics to be sung during the first official engagement at Manhattan's new Birdland Theater are from Irving Berlin's "There's No Business Like Show...
Kathryne Langford
No hard-and-fast rule dictates how much spoken word cabaret singers should include in their shows. Generally, spoken remarks don't occur in a show until after the second number. Then, depending...
Steven Zumbo
"You know, we eschew themes," Steven Zumbo announced early in his recent show at Don't Tell Mama, a two-night engagement directed by Helen Baldassare. (He could have added that show...
Jason Henderson
Presenting an entire program of Noël Coward numbers would, I imagine, give many an American cabaret singer pause. Whose songs are more steadfastly British—not only in lyrical content but also...
Kendra Cunningham
Kendra Cunningham is a good human being. Or, at any rate, she’s trying hard to be one. Growing up in a Catholic, Irish-Lithuanian-American household, she began saying affirmations at age...
Marcos Valle
Brazilian songwriter, singer, and keyboardist Marcos Valle has been an international musical presence since the early 1960s. Looking at displays of his album covers online, you can trace his march...