Tag: Lady Gaga
Alan Cumming: Sings Sappy Songs
Cumming’s show was a smash, with perfect amounts of talent, musicality, charm and humor.
Billy Strayhorn
July/August 2015 BILLY STRAYHORN by David Hajdu author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn William Thomas “Billy” Strayhorn, born in Dayton and raised in poverty in Pittsburgh, grew up yearning to live in Manhattan—as he imagined it from copies of The New Yorker that he bought with earnings from his paper route, a […]
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 […]
Cheyenne Jackson: Eyes Wide Open —Cafe Carlyle
Cheyenne Jackson Eyes Wide Open Café Carlyle, NYC, January 13, 2015 Reviewed by Annamaria Alfieri for Cabaret Scenes Cheyenne Jackson does not rely on just his matinee idol good looks and lovely baritone voice to win over his sold-out audience at New York’s Café Carlyle. He hangs his performance on autobiographical anecdotes delivered with unfaked […]
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 […]
Joan Ryan: On the Edge at Tom Rolla’s Gardenia
Joan Ryan On the Edge Tom Rolla’s Gardenia, West Hollywood, CA, June 1, 2014 Reviewed by Les Traub for Cabaret Scenes Midway through her show, Joan Ryan announced that she is a belt-aholic. She demonstrated, though, that she hasn’t yet completed the twelve steps and, based on her exuberance during the performance, she probably has […]
