Tag: Lorenz Hart

Sept. 7: Linda Lavin

| August 29, 2015 | 0 Comments
Sept. 7: Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin’s singing voice has always been an expressive extension of her speaking voice, probably more so than other singers.

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Marcus Simeone & Maria Ottavia: Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein

| August 25, 2015 | 0 Comments
Marcus Simeone & Maria Ottavia: Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein

You can’t go wrong with the music of Richard Rodgers.

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Mark Winkler: Jazz and Other Four Letter Words

| August 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
Mark Winkler: Jazz and Other Four Letter Words

Mark Winkler Jazz and Other Four Letter Words August 23, 2015 (Café Pacific Records) Reviewed by Mary Bogue for Cabaret Scenes Cool. Jazz. Done. Like. Mark. Mark Winkler’s latest CD, number 14, is officially way cool. Like a prize fighter, he swings right out of the box with “My Idea of a Good Time” (Greg […]

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Eric Michel Gillett: Careless Rhapsody: The Heart of Lorenz Hart

| July 9, 2015 | 0 Comments
Eric Michel Gillett: Careless Rhapsody: The Heart of Lorenz Hart

Eric Michel Gillett Careless Rhapsody: The Heart of Lorenz Hart July 9, 2015 Reviewed by Richard Edgcomb for Cabaret Scenes In the cabaret world, tribute CDs seem to be a dime a dozen, but few ever truly shine as brightly as Eric Michael Gillett’s Careless Rhapsody: The Heart of Lorenz Hart. This, his third solo […]

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Linda Lavin: Starting Over

| June 12, 2015 | 0 Comments
Linda Lavin: Starting Over

Linda Lavin’s singing voice has always been an expressive extension of her speaking voice.

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Pompie’s Place: Hilary Gardner, Lezlie Harrison, Brianna Thomas

| April 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
Pompie’s Place: Hilary Gardner,  Lezlie Harrison, Brianna Thomas

Pompie sings the blues at Pompie’s Place, evoking an intimate club space, sometime in the 1920s and ’30s, where a hot quintet and a couple of songbirds take the stage and sing the blues.

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Jane Scheckter
: Loves, Adores, Misses Bobby Short

| April 7, 2015 | 0 Comments
Jane Scheckter
: Loves, Adores, Misses Bobby Short

One of cabaret’s premier songbirds, Scheckter caresses all the seductive nuances in songs.

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Eric Michael Gillett: The Journey Begins

| March 21, 2015 | 0 Comments
Eric Michael Gillett: The Journey Begins

Eric Michael Gillett The Journey Begins March 11, 2015 At the end of Winter 1995, Darrell Henline, the founder and original publisher of Cabaret Scenes, made Peter Leavy an offer Leavy eventually could not refuse. Henline was planning the second issue of the magazine and he gave Leavy carte blanche to submit a piece on […]

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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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