Baby Jane Dexter

Kevin Scott Hall
"The Rules of the Road" Metropolitan Room – November 16 - December 22, Fridays and Saturdays After a year with more than its share of challenges, ultimate survivor Baby Jane Dexter takes the stage at the Metropolitan Room to begin her second long-running cabaret outing of the year and turns to the crowd with a...

Peter Gallagher

Kevin Scott Hall
"How'd All You People Get in My Room?" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  –  November 13-17 At Feinstein's at Loews Regency, actor and singer Peter Gallagher presents a very personal and autobiographical evening with his show "How'd All You People Get in My Room?" Veteran of over sixty films, hundreds of television episodes, and over 2000...

Liz Rubino & James McClellan

Robert Windeler
"Playing His Songs: Liz Rubino and James McClellan Sing Marvin Hamlisch" Metropolitan Room  -  October 12 Performing a tribute to the composer Marvin Hamlisch soon after his death is a nice idea—if a fairly obvious one—for a cabaret show. But, like any other act, it should offer a point of view and some insight into...

Hopelessly In Love: The Lyrics of Tom Toce

Robert Windeler
Metropolitan Room  -  October 10, 28, November 10 "Hopelessly in Love" is a triple pun. It can mean, roughly, "besotted with the right person," or "inevitably involved with the wrong one," or "determined to be in love no matter what." The touching and witty lyrics of Tom Toce deal with all sides of this tri-partite...

Mark Nadler

Roy Sander
"I'm a Stranger Here Myself" 54 Below  –  October 7, 21, 28, November 4, 11 Over the years, singer-pianist Mark Nadler has devised and performed several exceptional, even unforgettable shows: his evening about Russian composers, his tribute to Ira Gershwin, his program of songs of the 1920s—as well as duo shows he co-developed with KT...

Jeff Macauley

Kevin Scott Hall
"It Was Me: The Lyrics of Norman Gimbel" Don't Tell Mama  –  August 29, September 5, October 7, 21, 28, November 26, December 16, 22 Jeff Macauley has come up with a winning show, an overdue cabaret tribute to Norman Gimbel. Gimbel—a lyricist perhaps best known for his pop collaborations with Charles Fox during the...

Lauren Fox

Robert Windeler
"Canyon Folkies" Metropolitan Room  -  October 11, 12, 26, November 11 How green was my valley—until it wasn't anymore. In the late 1960s and early 1970s I was living in a Los Angeles canyon, not Laurel but the next one west, Coldwater. At the start of my journalistic career I covered the Mamas and the...

The 23rd New York Cabaret Convention

Mark Dundas Wood
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center  –  October 17, 18, 19 Gala Opening Night  -  by Mark Dundas Wood The gala opening night of the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 23rd New York Cabaret Convention—directed expertly by Rick Meadows—contained a number of bright, lively and even cheeky moments. But the festive character of the event was tempered...

Kathryne Langford

Mark Dundas Wood
"Jazz and Cocktails" Don't Tell Mama  –  September 14, October 5, November 11, December 9 Music critic Henry Pleasants once wrote of Peggy Lee: "She knows that when an actor stands stock still, characterization may begin with the twitch of a pinky, the lowering of the eyelids or a slight cocking of the head…." A...

Bettye LaVette

Robert Windeler
Highline Ballroom  -  September 28 She sang as a child and grew up in Detroit alongside Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding, but she never became part of the Motown Sound and didn't become a star. Yet Bettye LaVette made her first record at the age of 16, in 1962, and is currently celebrating...