Broadway Cares' Carols for a Cure Vol 15, Natalie Toro's Just in Time for Christmas, Megan McClannan Reardon's Dreams of Christmas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29AM[SHARE]We get her many flavors: pluck, pizzazz, passion, playfulness and unaffected sweetness (no artificial sweetness her). The 15-track album is a welcome mix of the standards (refreshened rather…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12AM[SHARE]There's a sense of wild anything-can-happen excitement, daredevilry, and delightful defiance throughout this piece.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PM[SHARE]It's a competition and people keep getting eliminated. We find out about them along the way: what makes these Texans tick, what ticks them off, what drives them to want to drive off with the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:00PM[SHARE]It's all about love and marriage and how they both fall apart for a couple in The Last Five Years ... precocious, peppy young 'uns who've trod the boards, have had their When I Grow Up show …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41AM[SHARE]While the Osnes oeuvre is all Maury Yeston, both Ainsworth and Benanti have a mixed bag of show tunes and pop, and—fun fact: each acknowledges Johnny Mercer, who wrote the lyric to the tit…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:26PM[SHARE]Mark Hartman is often found behind the piano, as he will be for two big shows on September 24 at Iridium NYC, but he will also be behind the idea of making the shows fundraisers for The Play…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:59PM[SHARE]Aaron Tveit's live recording from 54 Below, and Maud Hixson sings the Music of Michael Leonard.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:01PM[SHARE]... at every turn, there's serious and shaded acting going on and that takes center stage in the Classic Stage Company interpretation directed by John Doyle and conducted by Rob Berman, who…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:42AM[SHARE]Four decades after its first Broadway incarnation, Pippin's peppy, pop-inflected score has popped up again on Broadway, fresh and flush with energy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:19AM[SHARE]When looking for thoughtful, rich, articulate material about experiences and feelings that speak to mature adults with some life mileage, song sleuths, cabaret singers, musical theatre audit…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AM[SHARE]Dogfight fights to overcome some theatrical challenges—in a theatre or on disc ... You don't have to be a true detective or musical comedy sleuth to see where we're going in the dour and d…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:05PM[SHARE]Is that beloved, spunky, optimistic little redhead showing her age? To answer with a song title from the Annie score: Maybe.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AM[SHARE]One night!! Two sets!! Three cheers!! For it's five " That is, it's a five-piece band with Marilyn Maye at Iridium NYC on July 10, in an act titled Marilyn Maye Takes Five. The name referenc…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:25AM[SHARE]Dig in your heels to resist and say it's not much more than a well-done high-budget piece of force-fed fluff and pop puffery, or kick back and accept it as fine fun at best and a guilty plea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50PM[SHARE]One began as the Rodgers & Hammerstein TV special over a half-century ago ... The other, by way of an Oregon theatre production, has a charmer of a score by Ezra Weiss and taps into the love…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:42PM[SHARE]Welcome to the sophistication and very grown-up world of Noël Coward, inhabited by Steve Ross and guests, and the very much child-centric world of a kid named Nancy in the musical for kids,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:23PM[SHARE]In the musical See Rock City & Other Destinations, various traveling characters embark on important trips ... intrepid jazz journeyer Mark Winkler navigates the adventurous Laura Nyro songb…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:20PM[SHARE]Two of the most heartfelt albums I've heard in quite a while make their gentle way to the column now on a calm April breeze.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:49AM[SHARE]Different types, Andrea McArdle and Faith Prince entertain their audiences, relating high points from their careers (with song samples). Included in both acts are things from Jerry Herman, t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17AM[SHARE]We open our musical book of singers to the 'R' page this time, and spend some time with recent recordings by Johnny Rodgers and Molly Ringwald and a reissue of early record albums by Chita R…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:21AM[SHARE]Although they are different types of cabaret ladies, the first more Broadway and big-voiced, the other a low-key but graceful presence, both have recent CDs and will be back in Manhattan clu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15AM[SHARE]Norbert Leo Butz was captured at New York's hot venue 54 Below in a show he called Memory & Mayhem. ... on the other coast, singer Tom Culver's endeavor is titled Thanks for the Memory.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:11AM[SHARE]Since it's our policy that cabaret picks represent events/people I've seen a lot, and been glad I went, this week's pick is the annual MAC Awards on Thursday, March 21 --- at BB King in Time…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:44AM[SHARE]In a cabaret show, to take on the songbook and legacy of the formidable, fearless Elaine Stritch, you'd have to be formidable or fearless yourself-or kind of crazy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:27AM[SHARE]Whether brightly brimming with optimism or-as in "Born to Be Blue"-telling a tale of woe, Wopat makes it all sound effortless, without artifice, without sweat.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:24AM[SHARE]... in the key of B today: buoyant with a trio and vocalist recording from Bobby Belfry and the Budway boys; blisteringly honest and back to basics with Barb Jungr; and back to the bright B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:07PM[SHARE]MAC Male Vocalist nominee and Bistro Award winner T. Oliver Reid's Do I Love You, Bistro Award winner Moira Danis' Some People's Lives, Together Through Time: The Brownings in Word & Song, w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PM[SHARE]... t the cast album from the brief Broadway run of a musical based on the life of Hollywood's immortal figures, with a heartfelt score ... duo-disc set of strong appealing "guide vocals" a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:42PM[SHARE]She's back! And she looks and sounds terrific. As you might expect, Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday includes two big songs from that very musical that put her on the Broadway map.
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:55PM[SHARE]Maria Jacobs demonstrates the Art of the Duo, mostly with one guitarist or another (or, instead, bass or piano player). Jessica Molaskey's pianist du jour is also her singing partner and the…
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