Sarah Rice
Roy Sander
"Screen Gems – Songs of Old Hollywood" Laurie Beechman Theatre - September 13, October 10, 17, 25, 26, February 8, March 5, 7, April 2, 26, 30 Sarah Rice is part of our theatrical history, having been the original Johanna in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway. In her entertaining new cabaret show of songs from...
Raissa Katona Bennett
Roy Sander
Feinstein's at Loews Regency - October 19 Laurie Beechman Theatre - January 31 The defining moment in Raissa Katona Bennett's strong Feinstein's debut one-nighter came three-quarters of the way through her show. After she'd told us about having played a slew of ingenue roles, among them Luisa in The Fantasticks and Christine in Phantom of...
“Simply Barbra”
D4vidFinkle
Birdland - October 5 If right this minute they held a blindfold test to decide whether it was Barbra Streisand singing or Steven Brinbert, I'm willing to go out on a limb and say the most devoted Streisand crazo wouldn't be able to tell the difference—and that includes James Brolin. I'm basing my statement on...
Jane Krakowski
Elizabeth Ahlfors
“Has Sold Out ... Tickets Available" Feinstein's at Loew's Regency - October 6 - 10, 13, 14, 17 On big stage or small, Jane Krakowski knows how to make an entrance. In the award-winning 2003 Broadway production of Nine, Jane Krakowski slithered down from the rafters wrapped in a filmy white sheet to deliver "A...
Marilyn Maye
Elizabeth Ahlfors
“More Mercer" Metropolitan Room - October 6 - 17 (not Oct. 15) New Yorkers cannot get enough of this lady. As Johnny Mercer wrote, she's "Just Too Marvelous for Words." In June, Marilyn Maye brought her tribute "Mercer ... the Maye Way” to the Metropolitan Room. Because that was not enough for us and because...
Maria Tecce
D4vidFinkle
“Viva!” Metropolitan Room - October 11 Maria Tecce arrived on the Metropolitan Room stage reciting a poem by Nobel Prize-winning Pablo Neruda, and that’s definitely something you don’t see or hear in too many other cabaret acts. The love ode, which Tecce recited in Spanish, includes a reference to “a butterfly cooing like a dove.”...
Sue Matsuki
Roy Sander
"Sue Matsuki at the Beechman" The Laurie Beechman Theatre - September 12, 13, 26, 27, November 9 I have seen Sue Matsuki perform many times over the past eleven years. As I've said before, and will doubtless have occasion to say again, one of the most gratifying aspects—no, make that greatest pleasures—of covering cabaret over...
Jason Graae
Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Magically Delicious" Metropolitan Room - September 24, 25, 26, October 2, 3, 4 When you see live entertainment, you can never really be sure what you are going to get. You might go expecting belly laughs and barely manage a giggle. You might wait for emotional heartbreak and leave just blah. Most of all, and...
Will and Anthony Nunziata
Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Our Time" Feinstein's at Loews Regency - September 21, October 5 To paraphrase a Danny Kaye trademark song, they look alike, they walk alike, they talk alike. Will and Anthony Nunziata sing alike too, with voices that belt right out to the street. Twenty-something and good-looking, they have a youthful charisma, a nice communication with...
Karen Akers
Roy Sander
"Akers Sings Porter: 'Anything Goes!'" Oak Room at the Algonquin - September 22 – October 24 No one in his right mind would challenge the assertion that Cole Porter was one of the greatest songwriters of all time. However, someone who has been around the New York nightlife scene for a while and has, therefore,...