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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Khnemu Menu-Ra and Antonio Rodriguez: Origins of Love

| July 14, 2015 | 0 Comments
Khnemu Menu-Ra and Antonio Rodriguez: Origins of Love

Origins of Love was a smartly theatrical cabaret starring a pair of actors.

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Brian Owens: Sam Cooke Live at the Copa

| April 5, 2015 | 0 Comments
Brian Owens: Sam Cooke Live at the Copa

The first show was a solid nightclub act, polished and entertaining.

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Linda Kennedy: Melody/Movement

| April 5, 2015 | 0 Comments
Linda Kennedy: Melody/Movement

This was an act that consistently engaged and entertained the audience.

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Meghan Kirk: The Story Goes On

| April 5, 2015 | 0 Comments
Meghan Kirk: The Story Goes On

She’s a tremendously talented and charismatic performer—a classic singing actress with solid vocal technique and the acting chops necessary to inhabit a lyric.

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St. Louis News: March/April 2015

| March 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
St. Louis News: March/April 2015

Here’s the cabaret news for St. Louis for march/April 2015.

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Chris Limber and Friends: Riffs in a Set of 10

| November 24, 2014 | 0 Comments
Chris Limber and Friends: Riffs in a Set of 10

I first saw veteran St. Louis actor/director Chris Limber’s (pictured) loving and literate tribute to the hipster attitude of the Beat Generation last summer at the St. Lou Fringe Festival.

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Steve Ross: An Evening with Steve Ross

| November 24, 2014 | 0 Comments
Steve Ross: An Evening with Steve Ross

An evening with Steve Ross, it seems, is not only entertaining, it’s informative as well.

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Karen Mason: Secrets of the Ancient Divas

| November 24, 2014 | 0 Comments
Karen Mason: Secrets of the Ancient Divas

There were too many great moments in this show to list them all here, so I’ll settle for some that struck me forcefully enough to warrant a hastily scrawled note in the dark.

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