Lynn DiMenna

Lynn DiMenna has enjoyed a multi-faceted career in the entertainment world. She’s been guest vocalist with the Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Count Basie orchestras, as well as a featured “girl singer” with the Stan Rubin Orchestra and The Tavern on the Green All Stars. As a cabaret headliner and CD recording artist, her shows have played clubs from New York’s Stage 72 at The Triad, Metropolitan Room, Laurie Beechman Theater and Birdland to L.A.’s Gardenia. For nearly two decades, she hosted cabaret-focused radio shows in the New York metropolitan area, and now is a contributing writer and reviewer for Cabaret Scenes magazine and its website.

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Vanessa Racci: Italiana Fresca…Una Bella Cantanta!

| March 11, 2017 | 0 Comments
Vanessa Racci: Italiana Fresca…Una Bella Cantanta!

Confident and fearless.

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John Gabriel: A Man for All Genres!

| July 15, 2016 | 0 Comments
John Gabriel: A Man for All Genres!

John Gabriel A Man for All Genres! July 15, 2016 By Lynn DiMenna for Cabaret Scenes At the outset of their careers, most all of the great Italian-American crooners, from Tony Bennett (Anthony Benedetto) to Jerry Vale (Genaro Louis Vitaliano), were encouraged to change their birth names to something more easily pronounced and remembered. Actors, […]

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Robert Creighton: Born to Entertain!

| January 29, 2016 | 0 Comments
Robert Creighton: Born to Entertain!

He was born to entertain, from the tip of his nose to the tap of his toes.

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Gary Crawford & Barry Levitt: Two of a Kind!

| August 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
Gary Crawford & Barry Levitt: Two of a Kind!

Levitt calls their connection “bashert,” (“destined” or “meant to be”), while Crawford prefers “serendipity,” and continues to pinch himself

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Lynn DiMenna Interviews Marilyn Maye

| June 25, 2015 | 0 Comments
Lynn DiMenna Interviews Marilyn Maye

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Lynn DiMenna Interviews KT Sullivan

| February 5, 2015 | 0 Comments
Lynn DiMenna Interviews KT Sullivan

For decades, KT Sullivan has been a major cabaret figure and musical theater headliner. She’s starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Annie Get Your Gun, Three Penny Opera, The Merry Widow, L’il Abner, Brigadoon, and others. Among other notable venues, she’s played Carnegie Hall, The Algonquin’s Oak Room, The Rainbow Room, the Duplex, Don’t Tell Mama, […]

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Lynn DiMenna Interviews Bernie Furshpan

| December 7, 2014 | 0 Comments
Lynn DiMenna Interviews Bernie Furshpan

Bernie Furshpan is not only managing partner and booking director of New York’s hot Metropolitan Room, he’s a chiropractor, a stand-up comedian, a concert producer, and now – a contender to achieve a Guinness Book of World’s Record with the Metropolitan Room’s upcoming longest variety show ever.

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Joe Battaglia: A Late Bloomer

| November 3, 2014 | 0 Comments
Joe Battaglia: A Late Bloomer

orn to Italian immigrants and growing up on the Lower East Side of New York known as Little Italy, Joe Battaglia has lived the quintessential Italian-American story.

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The Crest Theatre: Delray Beach, FL

| October 18, 2014 | 0 Comments
The Crest Theatre: Delray Beach, FL

Do you remember the1939 film Babes in Arms when Mickey Rooney came up with the idea to use his parents’ barn to mount a show, and Judy Garland suggested she could make the costumes on her mother’s sewing machine?

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Cabaret at The Colony—The Royal Treatment: Palm Beach,FL

| October 18, 2014 | 0 Comments
Cabaret at The Colony—The Royal Treatment: Palm Beach,FL

Nine years ago, when the owners of The Colony in Palm Beach, Florida, were convinced to use a conveniently located storage room and convert it into a supper club/cabaret room with all the accoutrements of a first class entertainment venue, there were plenty of skeptics.

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