KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler

Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Gershwin...Here to Stay"  Guest Artist: Jon Weber  Oak Room at the Algonquin  -  March 9 – April 10 KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler treat audiences to a magical, theatrical whirl—in, out and around the Oak Room. Gershwin...Here to Stay is non-stop musical revue/theatre with comedy, duets, solos, a little soft-shoe, tap, costume changes, patter, joy and some tears. Once...

Joe Bachana

Roy Sander
"Midnight Masquerade: The Music of Bernie Bierman and Jack Manus" Metropolitan Room  -  March 3, 17, 24 Before I discuss Joe Bachana's glowing celebration of the songs of Bernie Bierman and Jack Manus, I would like to put it in cultural perspective. More than a half-century after the phenomenon, the terms Tin Pan Alley and...

John Standing

Elizabeth Ahlfors
"John Standing Performing Noël Coward"  The Café Carlyle  -  February 23 – March 6 Sir Noël Coward has passed on to loftier venues, but Sir John Standing remains to sing his repertoire of witty, risqué ditties and some of the most beautiful sentimental ballads around. Standing interweaves 16 Coward selections with personal anecdotes as well...

Rosemary Loar

Roy Sander
"Stiing, Stang, Stung!" Metropolitan Room  -  February 6, 8, 21, 26 In her show devoted to the songs of Sting, Rosemary Loar advances the view that Sting is the Cole Porter of our generation because, like Porter, he is not afraid to write intelligent lyrics—or lyrics that are simple, profound, and universal. For the rest...

Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano

Roy Sander
"This Thing Called Love"  Oak Room at the Algonquin  -  February 9 - March 6 For their latest show, Eric Comstock (piano, vocals) and Barbara Fasano (vocals, radiance) offer us an evening of songs about love. I know, I know: With the possible exception of list songs filled with geographical references or songs about household...

Christine Ebersole

Elizabeth Ahlfors
Cafe Carlyle  -  February 3 - 20 "Have you ever seen such a beautiful bunch of roses?" Christine Ebersole's mother asked her daughter. "How can a small bud unfurl into such a lovely flower?" An effervescent blonde, amiable, kind of daffy, and totally compelling, Christine Ebersole unfurls her own bouquet of talents at the Cafe...

Cornelius Bates

Roy Sander
"My Brazilian Romance: A Tribute to the Music from Brazil" Metropolitan Room  -  January 20, 24 I don't think many people would dispute the claim that Brazil has been the source of one of the world's great bodies of music. But it is not easy music—at least not for gringos: the rhythms can be complex...

Steve Ross

Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Puttin' On the Ritz: Steve Ross Sings Fred Astaire" Oak Room at the Algonquin  -  January 19 – February 6 Steve Ross has panache to spare when he is "Puttin' On the Ritz." Twenty-nine years ago, he brought music back to the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel after its four-decade-long absence. He helped establish a standard...

Martha Plimpton

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"Martha Plimpton Sings?" Allen Room  -  January 16 Shortly after Martha Plimpton took the Allen Room stage in a trench coat, eventually shed to reveal a form-fitting red dress cut up to here, she said, "I'm not known, you know, as a songbird." No, she isn't exactly known as a songbird, but she is known—at...

Tommy Femia

Elizabeth Ahlfors
"Judy Garland Live!"  Don't Tell Mama  -  January 16, 30, February 13, 27, March 13, 27 Some stars never die. They don't even fade away. They are revived in TV specials and little statues sold in the gift shops of their landmark birthplaces. Then there are the superstars who once grabbed audience imagination and never...