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Mx. Justin Vivian Bon
54 Below – Mondays, June 4 – July 9; Friday-Saturday July 20-21 Justin Vivian Bond comes on stage at 54 Below in an elegant long black dress slit up the left...
Fran Leonardis
"It Will Never Be That Way Again" Metropolitan Room – March 24, April 9, May 23 Fran Leonardis couldn't have picked a better—or truer—song for her opening number than Marvin...
Barb Jungr
"Man in the Long Black Coat" Metropolitan Room – April 10 - 28 Most of my fellow critics have been going gaga over Barb Jungr. My reaction when I first...
Clint Holmes
"This Thing Called Love, Cole Porter & Paul Simon" Café Carlyle - April 10 - 28 With creative programming, an imaginative concept, and a daring performance that knocks expectations out...
Stacy Sullivan
"A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" Iridium – March 13 When Stacy Sullivan sings "I Love Being Here With You" (Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee) at the very top of her...
Marissa Mulder
"Illusions" Metropolitan Room – March 7 - 10 Marissa Mulder's latest engagement at the Metropolitan Room was her prize for winning the club's 2011 MetroStar Talent Challenge. Considering the very...
Robert Creighton
"Ain't We Got Fun!" Metropolitan Room – February 12 & 13 Moonlighting from his eight-shows-a-week job playing the ship's purser in the Roundabout production of Anything Goes, tenor Robert Creighton...
Petula Clark
Feinstein's at Loews Regency – January 24 – February 11 When Petula Clark opens her show at Feinstein's singing "I Concentrate on You" slowly and with quiet solemnity, I thought...
Tanya Holt
Urban Stages – December 10 When Tanya Holt performed recently at the estimable Winter Rhythms festival at Urban Stages, it was her first solo offering in five years. During the...
Billie Roe
"Dangerous Women – Life in Film Noir" Don't Tell Mama – November 4, 11, 18, 25 I was so taken with Billie Roe's performance when she was a contestant in...