Gerry Geddes

Gerry Geddes, critic for BistroAwards.com, is an award-winning director, writer, teacher, performer, lyricist, and a contributor to the podcast Troubadours and Raconteurs. He conceived and directed the acclaimed musical revues Monday in the Dark with George (Bistro and MAC Award winner), Put on Your Saturday Suit—Words & Music by Jimmy Webb, and Gerry Geddes & Company (in its five-year residency at Pangea). He has directed singers André De Shields, Darius de Haas, Helen Baldassare, and Lisa Viggiano. He has been active in the cabaret world for over five decades and has produced numerous CDs; his lyrics have been performed and recorded here and in Europe. Gerry’s workshop, The Art of Vocal Performance, is regularly offered to singers of all levels. His memoir of life in NYC, Didn’t I Ever Tell You This?, was recently published and is available at barnesandnoble.com. He is currently at work on his first novel.

Kim Maresca

Gerry Geddes
Ruthless! The Musical, the satirical take on the classic killer-kid movie The Bad Seed, is currently enjoying a successful off-Broadway revival. One of its stars, Kim Maresca (who plays the harried and put-upon mother, Judy Denmark), went a few blocks uptown to Feinstein's/54 Below in a show that focused more on Broadway than off, and...

Steven Page

Gerry Geddes
Early on in his Café Carlyle debut, singer-songwriter Steven Page admits with sly understatement that he "was in a band for a long time." That band was the Toronto-based Barenaked Ladies, which toured (and is still touring) the world and sold millions of albums, and Page was its co-founder and lead singer and songwriter. Since...

Mabel Madness

Gerry Geddes
Mabel Madness – The Life of Mabel Mercer is a one-woman show written by and starring Trezana Beverley, the Tony-winning star of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Mercer, one of the most influential vocalists in all of music and also one of the least known by the general public, pretty...

Rita Wilson

Gerry Geddes
The sixties ushered in a number of changes in the world of music: the British invasion, folk music, Motown, and many others.  One of those changes, the rise of the singer/songwriter, turned out to be a surprising double-edged sword. While it celebrated artists like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Webb, James Taylor, Elton John and...

Abigail Rockwell & Sean Harkness

Gerry Geddes
The rough-hewn, relaxed feel of Stage 3 at Rockwood Music Hall on the Lower East Side proved the ideal setting for singer Abigail Rockwell and guitarist Sean Harkness to debut their new pairing, "Rock & Hark." The show had a loosely structured, "what shall we do next?" feel that for the most part worked well. The two...

Brandon James Gwinn

Gerry Geddes
Brandon James Gwinn is a pianist at Marie's Crisis piano bar. He is a Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Richard Rodgers Award finalist. He has been artist-in-residence at Ars Nova. He is a popular music director in cabaret and theatre and a composer of numerous shows and songs. He has been performing a series of...

Jason Kravits

Gerry Geddes
Jason Kravits is one of those good, reliable television character actors whose name might escape you, but whose face has you saying, "Oh yeah, that's the long-suffering district attorney from The Practice," or "I remember that guy from Grey's Anatomy" or from one of the seemingly endless list of shows on which he has co-starred...

Marcus Goldhaber

Gerry Geddes
First, let's talk a bit about Frank Sinatra. A musical icon (maybe THE musical icon), he has influenced a few generations of male vocalists. There are some who want to do his songs, some who want to emulate his style, some who want to capture that "Rat Pack" cool of a bygone era, and some...

Barbara Fasano

Gerry Geddes
Barbara Fasano celebrated the release of her new CD, "Busy Being Free," at the Metropolitan Room with the disc's arranger and music director, John di Martino, on piano. While the title comes from an early Joni Mitchell song, "Cactus Tree," the repertoire is primarily from the Great American Songbook and includes both familiar warhorses and rare...

Amanda Yesnowitz

Gerry Geddes
Lyricist Amanda Yesnowitz has been developing a name for herself in cabaret circles in New York City, with multiple nominations for various "Song of the Year" awards and, as she put it in her recent show at the Duplex, "Mercury Rising: The Sultry, Sassy Lyrics of Amanda Yesnowitz," she has also "won some sh*t as...