Tag: Mabel Mercer

Staying Power

| February 16, 2016 | 0 Comments
Staying Power

What keeps a veteran performer viable and popular in later years?

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Lina Koutrakos: Archives 1980-2015

| December 8, 2015 | 0 Comments
Lina Koutrakos: Archives 1980-2015

She is an uncommon fusion of Melissa Etheridge and Mabel Mercer.

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Remembering Jan Wallman 1922-2015

| December 4, 2015 | 0 Comments
Remembering Jan Wallman 1922-2015

We will never see her likes again.

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Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages

| November 24, 2015 | 0 Comments
Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages

Cabaret, Musical Theater, Jazz and more.

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Nov. 13: Barry Lloyd

| November 10, 2015 | 0 Comments
Nov. 13: Barry Lloyd

Lloyd is a far more animated vocalist who, one might say, takes the baton from Bobby Short and runs with it an extra mile.

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26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Duke & Hamlisch

| October 23, 2015 | 0 Comments
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Duke & Hamlisch

Setting the evening’s warm-hearted style was Klea Blackhurst,

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26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Kander & Ebb

| October 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Kander & Ebb

What a fine and quite theatrical evening it was when Thursday at The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Cabaret Convention.

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26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: WWII Songs

| October 15, 2015 | 0 Comments
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: WWII Songs

Hosted by Cabaret greats Jeff Harnar and Andrea Marcovicci, the second program of the New York Cabaret Convention was A Sentimental Journey: World War II Songs.

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26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Gala Opening Night

| October 14, 2015 | 0 Comments
26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Gala Opening Night

“Another op’nin’, another show….” were the first words we heard at another opening of yet another show.

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Sept. 19: Charisma Wooten

| September 15, 2015 | 0 Comments
Sept. 19: Charisma Wooten

Wooten’s most endearing characteristic is a deep respect for the cabaret performing tradition.

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