Tag: Doris Day

Scott Dreier: The Doris Day Project

| August 2, 2016 | 0 Comments
Scott Dreier: The Doris Day Project

Scott Dreier is in top form.

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Karen Oberlin: Bad Love: The Randy Newman Songbook

| August 1, 2016 | 0 Comments
Karen Oberlin: Bad Love: The Randy Newman Songbook

A stand-out show.

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Maureen Taylor: Taylor Made: Bob Merrill

| July 19, 2016 | 0 Comments
Maureen Taylor: Taylor Made: Bob Merrill

It was in ballads where her voice—light, clear and pitch-perfect—shone.

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Rumer Willis

| April 8, 2016 | 0 Comments
Rumer Willis

Her musical lines are long and smooth.

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Dec. 5: Clare Teal

| December 1, 2015 | 0 Comments
Dec. 5: Clare Teal

Built to sing the blues, her melodic voice is capable of the most exquisite bridges, riding the notes naturally.

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Nov. 13: Karen Oberlin

| November 10, 2015 | 0 Comments
Nov. 13: Karen Oberlin

Karen Oberlin reprised her Doris Day tribute with mature, ebullient, confident Oberlin jazz savvy.

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Nov. 14: Varla Jean Merman

| November 10, 2015 | 0 Comments
Nov. 14: Varla Jean Merman

Someone ought to wash out Miss Varla Jean Merman’s mouth with soap. Such nasty stuff! So many sexual innuendos! And how entertaining!

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Lynn Henderson: If We Only Have Love

| June 6, 2015 | 0 Comments
Lynn Henderson: If We Only Have Love

If We Only Have Love improves on successive hearings, but well worth buying just for “One Note Samba.”

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Chicago News: May/June 2015

| April 27, 2015 | 0 Comments
Chicago News: May/June 2015

Hilary Ann Feldman salutes Carol Burnett at Davenport’s 5/9, 16 & 23. Robert Rodi appears 5/10 in The Sound of Music, Man. The Chicago Cabaret Professionals offer Strut Your Stuff 5/11 featuring Helene Alter-Dyche, Anna Besserud, Jenifer French and Sue Susman with musical direction by Nick Sula. Anne Steele brings What’s Mine 5/15 & 17. […]

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