Tag: Gershwin
Nov. 14: Mark Nadler
As a singer/pianist, Nadler also has the ability to smoothly transition from patter to song.
Marissa Mulder and Bill Zeffiro: Unconventional
Mulder, Zeffiro and the Gershwin brothers rarely sounded better.
Mark Nadler
Mark Nadler The Cabaret at Germano’s, Baltimore, MD, September 10, 2015 Reviewed by Michael Miyazaki for Cabaret Scenes Mark Nadler opened his show at Germano’s with a version of “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” that distilled everything that was to come in the evening: a very personal take on a lyric; a strong […]
Steve Ross: Steve Ross on Broadway
Steve Ross is the last of a breed: a gentleman, a man about town, dressed elegantly, singing one song after another in great voice.
May 14: Connie Champagne
Connie Champagne Beyond the Rainbow Thursday, May 14, 2015 8:00 PM Feinstein’s at the Nikko 222 Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94102 www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=5739015&pl=nikko Ms. Champagne brings to the stage the illusion of the great Judy Garland like no one else. Beyond the Rainbow delivers Garland’s greatest hits along with Champagne’s take on contemporary songs that Garland […]
Bart Howard
May/June 2015 BART HOWARD by Rob Lester He said that “the song poured out of” him “in twenty minutes,” but it sure has lasted: “Fly Me to the Moon” put composer-lyricist Bart Howard on the map with just that one audience-pleaser. Successful both as an uptempo number and its original setting as a romantic ballad, […]
Peggy King: Metropolitan Room
Peggy King Metropolitan Room, NYC, April 4, 2015 Reviewed by Rob Lester for Cabaret Scenes Among the many, many “girl singers” of yore who prettily purred, sweetly singing and swinging in now-gone colorful nightclubs, black-and-white TV screens of the 1950s, and on shiny black vinyl discs, there was Peggy King. There still is. Not rocking/writing/rolling […]
Las Vegas: Janaury/February 2015 News
We are most excited about hotel mogul Steve Wynn’s new project. It’s called ShowStoppers and it’s BIG! With a talented cast of 34 singers and dancers, backed by an on-stage, 30-piece orchestra, the 90-minute production opened in the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas in mid-December. ShowStoppers is composed of many quintessential musical theater numbers from […]
Deborah Silver: Sing Happy
With glamour, pizzazz and authority, Deborah Silver pulled out all the stops for a one-night-only benefit for the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook.
