Cougar The Musical

Kevin Scott Hall
St. Luke's Theatre  –  Opened August 26, 2012 Eight years in the making, Cougar The Musical began as a two-person cabaret show that had a three-year run at Don't Tell Mama. Now creator Donna Moore (playwright/lyricist/composer) has brought her revamped, four-person show to St. Luke's Theater for an open-ended Off-Broadway run. Moore re-imagines the often-maligned...

The Cat Pack

Mark Dundas Wood
Iridium  –  August 22 The Cat Pack is the 1960s' Rat Pack in an alternative universe—a place almost identical to the one that those earthlings lived in, but strangely devoid of tar and nicotine. The three singers who comprise the group—Tony Apicella, Jimmy Cargill, and Sonny Von Murray—don't impersonate Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, or...

Tituss Burgess

Mark Dundas Wood
"Because I Feel Like It" 54 Below  –  August 26 Though he’s known as a theatre singer (Jersey Boys, The Little Mermaid), Tituss Burgess flourishes off the boards in the realm of R&B music. His one-nighter at 54 Below allowed him to cut loose with an hour's worth of songs—some self-penned—that rocked, slow-danced, and threw out...

KT Sullivan and Larry Woodard

Mark Dundas Wood
"Glamorous Summer Nights" Laurie Beechman Theatre  -  June 20, July 24, August 22, September 19 At the top of their show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, KT Sullivan and Larry Woodard sing a kaleidoscopic medley of song snippets, leading off with a variation on Stephen Sondheim's "Comedy Tonight" (called "Cabaret Tonight"). Here the pair tells...

Raissa Katona Bennett

Kevin Scott Hall
"Another Kind of Light" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  –  August 21-25 When Raissa Katona Bennett, veteran of Broadway shows and champion of cabaret, enters the elegant Feinstein's at Loews Regency to begin her week-long engagement, she conveys the assurance and warmth of one who is enjoying the occasion. She performs her opening song, "Make Me...

Charlotte Patton

Roy Sander
"Looking for Love in the 21st Century" The Duplex  -  August 15, 22, Sept. 19 Any number of qualities or factors can induce me to see a performer I'm unfamiliar with—for example, a photograph on a flyer that gives the artist an air of intelligence or wit, or a theme that sounds interesting or intriguing....

Marc Eliot

Mark Dundas Wood
Jazz at Kitano  –  August 8 Leading off the "About Marc" page on singer-composer Marc Eliot's website is a quotation from the widow of Sammy Davis Jr. She claims that when she listened to Eliot's recording of Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner's "Come Back to Me," she thought she was hearing her late husband singing....

Stacie Perlman

Roy Sander
"The Story Underneath" Metropolitan Room - July 10, July 31, August 14 When she competed in last year's MetroStar Talent Challenge, Stacie Perlman made a strong and at times dazzling impression. Relatively new to cabaret, having worked previously mainly in theatre, she combined an uncommonly perceptive and expressive acting ability with her manifest singing talent...

Rebecca Kilgore

Robert Windeler
"The Jazzy Side of Judy Garland" Feinstein's at Loews Regency  -  July 31 - August 11 This is not your grandmother's Judy Garland. Nor is it intended to be. Rebecca Kilgore, in splendid voice, has created an effective and original take on a largely very familiar songbook for her current show at Feinstein's. As she...

Andrea Wolper

Kevin Scott Hall
Zinc Bar  –  July 30 There was a bit of old-time magic in the air even before the music started at the plush and dark Zinc Bar, located in the heart of old Greenwich Village. The pleasure of a summer evening stroll down West 3rd Street, filled with the ghosts of past music legends, lent an...