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,...
Gay Marshall
Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Gay Marshall Sings Piaf" Metropolitan Room - September 15, 22, 29, October 1, 8
In her tribute to French icon Edith Piaf, Gay Marshall says that Piaf "...started out singing to live and later lived to sing." Tiny, taut and wired with energy, Marshall captures that Piaf spirit in her current show. She has the theatricality...
Jennifer Sheehan
Roy Sander
"You Made Me Love You" Laurie Beechman Theatre - September 18, 20, 25 Jennifer Sheehan has come a long way artistically since she made her promising New York cabaret debut at Danny's Skylight Room in 2005. Though manifestly still an ingénue, she performs with considerably more authority: there is more weight to her voice, her interpretations have greater depth,...
Jack Jones
Roy Sander
Oak Room at the Algonquin - September 9-19 Jack Jones's current show is a tribute to the great lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman. When going to a Jack Jones performance, I don't think it's possible—at least not for me—not to feel something akin to awe at the man's career and accomplishments. He has been in show business...
Adam Shapiro
Roy Sander
"It Starts When We're Kids" The Duplex - September 12, 18 I've seen Adam Shapiro perform many times, but until now, only in open mic appearances. With a solid baritone voice and the ability to be hilarious with comic material, strikingly dramatic with big ballads, and sweetly tender in gentler ones, in these performances he nearly...