Wednesday, July 25, 2012
“Ruby Sparks,” written by and starring Zoe Kazan, is a variation of the Pygmalion myth, featuring Paul Dano as a struggling novelist.
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For Alice Ripley, who is performing at the Metropolitan Room, tricky questions of musical identity arise.
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Laura Osnes mixed Broadway standards like “Till There Was You” and “A Wonderful Guy” with more eclectic fare at her New York cabaret debut at Café Carlyle.
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Michael Feinstein hosted a Jazz at Lincoln Center program that explored how popular standards have been torn apart and remade as jazz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20PM“Into the Garden,” Maude Maggart’s new show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, looks at double-entendres and double meanings in lyric writing.
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A concert performance of “The Sound of Music,” a benefit for Carnegie Hall, was lavish but serene, an all-star event without star performances.
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At Café Carlyle, Clint Holmes acts out songs by Paul Simon and Cole Porter with the sweaty intensity of a man flirting with an emotional breakdown.
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Whether or not you’re a purist who prefers the intimate movie soundtrack for “Once” to the more polished Broadway cast recording, both defy pop music’s trend toward ever larger, loud…
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Donald F. Smith, a champion of high-style cabaret who founded both the Mabel Mercer Foundation and the New York Cabaret Convention, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 79. The cause was con…
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Marissa Mulder won a competition at the Metropolitan Room, and now she’s back, with a trio, singing about dreams and illusions.
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A state competition for California high school students is the subject of Alex Rotaru’s documentary “Shakespeare High.”
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Judy Kuhn, performing at Feinstein’s through Saturday, is able to convey a great deal of emotion with minimal acting.
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“Nothing to Lose but Your Heart,” a show by Eric Michael Gillett and La Tanya Hall, features the songs of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
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Laura Benanti, the Tony-winning actress and singer, gave the final concert in the season’s American Songbook series at the Allen Room on Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMThe Lincoln Center American Songbook series has ended its season with the British musical theater star Elaine Paige in her New York concert debut.
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The Lincoln Center American Songbook series has ended its season with the British musical theater star Elaine Paige in her New York concert debut.
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“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”
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What was thought to be an unpublished song by Irving Berlin turns out to have been composed in 1926 by the team of Lew Brown and Cliff Friend.
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In the American Songbook series on Saturday evening Michael Cerveris, of “Assassins” and “Sweeney Todd” fame, affected the look but not the attitude of a rambling musician from way b…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda performed “The Hamilton Mixtape,” his hip-hop song cycle about the life and death of Alexander Hamilton, at the Allen Room.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook shared musical lore and popular standards onstage at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
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Baby Jane Dexter’s “Still Bad, Still Blue” at the Metropolitan Room resurrects, to some degree, her 1996 act, “Big, Bad and Blue.”
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In “Cotton Club Parade,” the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra joins singers and dancers to bring the swing to classics of the Harlem Renaissance.
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“Stories With Piano #3” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency features Bebe Neuwirth in her illusion-breaking mode.
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The 83-year-old powerhouse Marilyn Maye is performing an all-Jerry Herman program at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency through Saturday.
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