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...

Steve Ross

Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Puttin' On the Ritz: Steve Ross Sings Fred Astaire" Oak Room at the Algonquin  -  January 19 – February 6 Steve Ross has panache to spare when he is "Puttin' On the Ritz." Twenty-nine years ago, he brought music back to the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel after its four-decade-long absence. He helped establish a standard...

Martha Plimpton

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"Martha Plimpton Sings?" Allen Room  -  January 16 Shortly after Martha Plimpton took the Allen Room stage in a trench coat, eventually shed to reveal a form-fitting red dress cut up to here, she said, "I'm not known, you know, as a songbird." No, she isn't exactly known as a songbird, but she is known—at...

Tommy Femia

Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Judy Garland Live!"  Don't Tell Mama  -  January 16, 30, February 13, 27, March 13, 27 Some stars never die. They don't even fade away. They are revived in TV specials and little statues sold in the gift shops of their landmark birthplaces. Then there are the superstars who once grabbed audience imagination and never...

Tyne Daly

Roy Sander
"The Second Time Around" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  -  January 19 - 30 Something pretty marvelous is taking place at Feinstein's these days: Tyne Daly is back in a show directed by David Galligan, and she is, to sum things up, pretty marvelous. We've known that she's an accomplished actress and singer, but we may...

Jackie Fornatale

Roy Sander
"Get Ready – Jackie Fornatale Sings Motown" Don't Tell Mama  -  November 15, 22, January 10, March 4, 18 Jackie Fornatale opens her tribute to Motown walking through the house singing "Dancing in the Street" (William "Mickey" Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Hunter). Immediately, the audience is swept up in a spirit of joyous ebullience, and...