Rita Gardner Remembers
Rita Gardner is remembering. Watching her on the small stage of Metropolitan Room, beautifully performing songs and telling compelling stories from the Golden Age of Off-Broadway (the late 1950s, '60s and '70s), one word comes to mind above all others: "authentic." For she was there, performing in the small theatres and nightclubs of NY where, as she says, there weren't many chairs and most of them were broken. S…