Joyce Breach
Elizabeth Ahlfors
Metropolitan Room - March 23, 26 Joyce Breach has an affinity for old movies and good songs, and she has the taste to choose the prime and avoid the second-rate. In most of her shows she includes tunes that you've probably heard once or twice but never had the chance to get to know. They...
Sean Harkness
Roy Sander
Metropolitan Room - March 28, 31 Unless you're a shut-in, you've probably seen guitarist Sean Harkness backing up any number of fortunate singers around town—which means that you are already familiar with how gifted and multi-faceted a musician he is and you've seen the enthusiasm, joy, and commitment he brings to performing. In his recent...
Penny Fuller
Elizabeth Ahlfors
"The War Between My States" Metropolitan Room - March 15 22, April 3 When you have an insightful actress/singer with a point of view, an astute director to help frame her message, and musical accompaniment that adds color and style, you'll get more than your penny's worth. Penny Fuller, nominated for Tony Awards for both...
KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler
Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Gershwin...Here to Stay" Guest Artist: Jon Weber Oak Room at the Algonquin - March 9 – April 10 KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler treat audiences to a magical, theatrical whirl—in, out and around the Oak Room. Gershwin...Here to Stay is non-stop musical revue/theatre with comedy, duets, solos, a little soft-shoe, tap, costume changes, patter, joy and some tears. Once...
Joe Bachana
Roy Sander
"Midnight Masquerade: The Music of Bernie Bierman and Jack Manus" Metropolitan Room - March 3, 17, 24 Before I discuss Joe Bachana's glowing celebration of the songs of Bernie Bierman and Jack Manus, I would like to put it in cultural perspective. More than a half-century after the phenomenon, the terms Tin Pan Alley and...
John Standing
Elizabeth Ahlfors
"John Standing Performing Noël Coward" The Café Carlyle - February 23 – March 6 Sir Noël Coward has passed on to loftier venues, but Sir John Standing remains to sing his repertoire of witty, risqué ditties and some of the most beautiful sentimental ballads around. Standing interweaves 16 Coward selections with personal anecdotes as well...
Rosemary Loar
Roy Sander
"Stiing, Stang, Stung!" Metropolitan Room - February 6, 8, 21, 26 In her show devoted to the songs of Sting, Rosemary Loar advances the view that Sting is the Cole Porter of our generation because, like Porter, he is not afraid to write intelligent lyrics—or lyrics that are simple, profound, and universal. For the rest...
Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano
Roy Sander
"This Thing Called Love" Oak Room at the Algonquin - February 9 - March 6 For their latest show, Eric Comstock (piano, vocals) and Barbara Fasano (vocals, radiance) offer us an evening of songs about love. I know, I know: With the possible exception of list songs filled with geographical references or songs about household...
Christine Ebersole
Elizabeth Ahlfors
Cafe Carlyle - February 3 - 20 "Have you ever seen such a beautiful bunch of roses?" Christine Ebersole's mother asked her daughter. "How can a small bud unfurl into such a lovely flower?" An effervescent blonde, amiable, kind of daffy, and totally compelling, Christine Ebersole unfurls her own bouquet of talents at the Cafe...
Cornelius Bates
Roy Sander
"My Brazilian Romance: A Tribute to the Music from Brazil" Metropolitan Room - January 20, 24 I don't think many people would dispute the claim that Brazil has been the source of one of the world's great bodies of music. But it is not easy music—at least not for gringos: the rhythms can be complex...