Thursday, May 16, 2013
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]Thursday, May 2, 2013
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]Thursday, April 25, 2013
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]Thursday, April 18, 2013
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]Thursday, April 11, 2013
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]Thursday, March 28, 2013
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]Thursday, March 21, 2013
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]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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]Thursday, March 14, 2013
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]Thursday, March 7, 2013
... 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]Friday, March 1, 2013
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]Thursday, February 21, 2013
... 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]Thursday, February 14, 2013
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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
You can say that all musical theatre roads liltingly lead back to composer Jerome Kern.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:44PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2013
Context is everything. Have some patience and drink it all in, and don't judge by casual first listen. The brand new revival cast album of The Mystery of Edwin Drood is fully understood and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
Patti LuPone comes from the world of theatre and Patricia Racette is an established opera singer, but each has found another home on the cabaret stage. Each has a new live album that include…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2013
"Retirement." It's not even a thought for performers Barbara Cook and Joel Grey or writers Sheldon Harnick and Sherman Yellen.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
Beyond the usual Top Ten Vocals, there are a couple of other special honorees.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
These are the ones that make me want to press "repeat play" repeatedly and think will hold up and I'll hold closer over the coming years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2013
Let's leap into the new year with looks at two new cast recordings, both courtesy of the invaluable Ghostlight Records label.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2012
This is a feel-good fest. Lively and upbeat, the 69-year-old is as bubbly as the soon-to-be-corked New Year's Eve champagne.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 27, 2012
Recommended listening comes from vocalists who've perked up my ears and piqued my interest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2012
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Telly Leung, Robert Cuccioli and Natalie Toro.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2012
It's a wonderful feeling, finding an eye-opening, ear-opening dazzling treasure-chest of songs with melodies by a master, many of which have never (or rarely) been recorded.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2012
Tell the stage manager to cue the snow as we welcome two Broadway veterans teaming up and joined by a small instrumental group. Then, two other albums: both vocalists from the Washington, DC…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
There are three things certain in life: death, taxes, and that every year there will be a bunch of new Christmas recordings on the market. "Haul out the holly" and have a look at this year's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
Anthony Newley "The Last Song: The Final Recordings," "Top Hat" 2012 London Cast, and Andrea Marcovicci's "Smile" reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2012
What a pleasure to find these two Lost-titled albums and welcome back to two female singers whose latest work brings intelligent, artful interpretations: Deborah Shulman and Deanna Kirk.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
There's nice work on all three of this week's musical entries. We begin with Nice Work If You Can Get It, the cast album that's a glut of Gershwin & Gershwin from the golden age. A starkly m…
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