Linda Glick

Gerry Geddes
In her early years as a singer in New York, Linda Glick split her time between teaching high school Spanish and French during the day and appearing at some of the city's landmark cabarets, such Les Mouches and Reno Sweeney, at night. As her nighttime career bloomed, it overcame her daytime pursuits as she moved...

Ann Kittredge

Robert Windeler
She was already two-thirds of the way into One Night Only, her recent show at Feinstein's/54 Below, before Ann Kittredge acknowledged that if she "had to pick one song" to explain what her evening was about, it would be this one: "Before the Parade Passes By" (Jerry Herman). Kittredge sang the number in a slower,...

Caitlin Fahey

Gerry Geddes
Party of One, which is playing at Don't Tell Mama, is the entertaining and smoothly structured cabaret debut offering of singer Caitlin Fahey. Coming from the world of opera, Fahey has a strong, expressive voice, but wisely chooses to keep it in check unless the song calls for her to indulge its power. She seems...

Amy Wolk

Mark Dundas Wood
The first music we hear in Amy Wolk's new Duplex show is a snippet of the "Love Is All Around" theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The singer arrives on the stage, kicking out one leg so that we can get a good look at one of her bright new Wonder Woman shoes. Then...

Dawn Derow

Robert Windeler
In so many ways, 1941 was a very good year in America. It was the year Joe DiMaggio scored hits in a record 56 straight games, leading the Yankees to yet another World Series win. The movies gave us such classics as Citizen Kane and Rebecca, and it cost only 25 cents to see them....

The 28th New York Cabaret Convention

Bistro Awards
The 28th edition of the New York Cabaret Convention, presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, took place October 16-19 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Penelope Thomas, Mark Dundas Wood, Gerry Geddes, and Robert Windeler covered the four nights for us. Following are their thoughts.     Gala Opening Night – by...

Frances Ruffelle

Penelope Thomas
Frances Ruffelle’s voice sounds like diamond dust: just so pretty and so gritty that you could listen to it sparkle roughly for hours. If Éponine had had the chance to grow up, this is who she’d be: streetwise, lovelorn, and European…singing to share the hard-won wisdom she attained through heartbreak and owning that wild edge....

Christine Andreas

Gerry Geddes
Christine Andreas's show Love Is Good proved, once again, that she is a consummate cabaret performer. There could not have been a better closing engagement for Mark Nadler's wonderful (and wonderfully successful) summer cabaret series at the Beach Cafe. In the intimate space that feels as much like a living room as a music room,...

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph

Mark Dundas Wood
I'll never forget the day my brother and I were spurned by Wunda Wunda. The TV story lady of the Pacific Northwest was a tall, stately yet somehow dainty clown character. I was 8 and Brian was 6 when we had our encounter with Wunda at the Seattle World's Fair. While she fawned over the...

Gabrielle Stravelli

Mark Dundas Wood
In her recent one-off at Birdland, City Girl, Country Boy: Gabrielle Stravelli Sings Willie Nelson, the singer put a guitar-free jazz spin on some of the country legend's biggest hits—his self-penned songs, as well as other writers' titles that he's performed and/or recorded over the decades. Some performers might fret about just how smoothly this...