Chuck Lavazzi

Chuck Lavazzi is the producer for the arts calendars and senior performing arts critic at 88.1 KDHX, the host of The Cabaret Project’s monthly open mic night, and entirely to blame for the Stage Left blog at stageleft-stlouis.blogspot.com. He’s a member of the Music Critics Association of North America and the St. Louis Theater Circle. Chuck has been an actor, sound designer, and occasional director since roughly the Bronze Age. He has presented his cabaret show Just a Song at Twilight: the Golden Age of Vaudeville, at the Missouri History Museum and the Kranzberg Center.

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Ken Haller: The Medicine Show

| May 3, 2017 | 0 Comments
Ken Haller: The Medicine Show

Delivered the goods with theatrical smarts and vocal authority

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Ari Axelrod: Taking the Wheel

| December 15, 2016 | 0 Comments
Ari Axelrod: Taking the Wheel

Unfailingly engaging and intelligent.

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Karen Irwin: Janis, Me, and Bobby McGee

| November 20, 2016 | 0 Comments
Karen Irwin: Janis, Me, and Bobby McGee

A pure tornado of a performance.

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Judy Carmichael

| November 20, 2016 | 0 Comments
Judy Carmichael

An evening that brought smiles of pleasure.

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Emily West

| April 2, 2016 | 0 Comments
Emily West

But West is a wonderfully charismatic singer with an ingratiating sense of self-aware humor.

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Maxine Linehan: An Immigrant’s Story

| December 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
Maxine Linehan: An Immigrant’s Story

Linehan’s clear, bright, and wide-ranging soprano was like a breath of fresh air.

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Storm Large

| December 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
Storm Large

Entertaining, raucously and bawdily funny, and entirely genuine.

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Lina Koutrakos & Rick Jensen: Two for the Road

| December 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
Lina Koutrakos & Rick Jensen: Two for the Road

They unfailingly delivered a mix of passion, wit, and polished musicianship that was unbeatable.

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Shanara Gabrielle: Rated SG

| December 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
Shanara Gabrielle: Rated SG

Gabrielle came across as a very smart, funny, and self-aware entertainer.

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Susan Werner

| December 2, 2015 | 0 Comments
Susan Werner

One of the most innovative songwriters working today.

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