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Stevie Holland

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"Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter" The Triad - October 28-November 21 (Wednesdays and Saturdays) With cabaret shows, there's nothing more commonplace than sets built around a songwriter or songwriting team. This is especially true when the same songwriters are picked—or picked on—time after time. Maybe I wouldn't mind if someone honored the...

Paula West

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Oak Room at the Algonquin  -  October 27 – November 14 One of the myriad reasons I like—no, love—Paula West is that she considers Cole Porter and Bob Dylan to be on an equal footing with each other. Actually, in her current Oak Room at the Algonquin tour de force, she gives Porter the edge...

Kathleen France

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"Book of Love"  Metropolitan Room – October 18, 25, November 20 Looking for love in all the right and wrong places, finding it, losing it, recovering from it, disdaining it, choking on it, floating on it, discombobulated by it—Kathleen France is only the latest boite denizen to make it the theme of a gig. And...

“Simply Barbra”

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Birdland  -  October 5  If right this minute they held a blindfold test to decide whether it was Barbra Streisand singing or Steven Brinbert, I'm willing to go out on a limb and say the most devoted Streisand crazo wouldn't be able to tell the difference—and that includes James Brolin. I'm basing my statement on...

Maria Tecce

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“Viva!” Metropolitan Room  -  October 11 Maria Tecce arrived on the Metropolitan Room stage reciting a poem by Nobel Prize-winning Pablo Neruda, and that’s definitely something you don’t see or hear in too many other cabaret acts. The love ode, which Tecce recited in Spanish, includes a reference to “a butterfly cooing like a dove.”...

Michael Feinstein & Christine Ebersole

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"Good Friends" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  –  September 8 - 12 It makes sense (and much accumulated cents) to have Michael Feinstein—who lends his name to the Feinstein's at Loews Regency tag—appear several times during the cabaret season. He's guaranteed to pack the house or almost pack it at every performance, a boon during stressed...

Jane Scheckter

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"Play a Simple Melody – A Tribute to Irving Berlin" The Metropolitan Room  -  September 1, 2, 8, 13 Right off the bat in her Irving Berlin tribute, "Play a Simple Melody," Jane Scheckter distances herself from her title and from what she apparently considers the canard about the iconic tunesmith's being a simple, not...

Darren Williams

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"Not the Boy Next Door – The Peter Allen Songbook" The Metropolitan Room - August 25, 27, September 6, 13 By the time Darren Williams reached the "I Go to Rio" encore in his opening-night "Not the Boy Next Door – The Peter Allen Songbook" tribute, he'd already pulled down the zipper on his black...

Michael Amante

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 “In the Name of Love”  Feinstein's at Loews Regency – August 24, 25   Michael Amante knows what his audience wants—volume with a capital "V"—and he gives it to them. They like their love songs loud, and at the first of his two-night Feinstein’s at Loews Regency stay, he made certain they got them that way....

An Evening at the Carlyle

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Algonquin Theatre 123 East 24th Street currently running open-ended It's in a theater. So is it a theater piece? It takes place in the Hotel Carlyle's Bemelmans Bar and even features set designer John McDermott's adaptations of Ludwig Bemelmans's famous murals. So is it a cabaret revue? The unfortunate conclusion is that however Al Tapper's...