Music review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When is the last time you saw an entire audience clapping, singing along and dancing to a 78-piece orchestra? The New York Pops orchestra has had some o…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:15AMCabaret review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When last we saw young French Canadian crooner David Marino, in July 2023, he was making his New York cabaret debut downtown (read HERE). He was quite…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:29AMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . At Pangea last month, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Gretchen Cryer and Richard Malby, Jr. converged on this intimate venue to reprise their popular …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:50AMCD Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Margot Sergent is a marvelous French performer I’ve caught a couple of times, including her Edith Piaf show at Birdland (reviewed HERE). As a jazz harpis…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:18PMCabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Those cabaret fans who’ve experienced the joy of a Lianne Marie Dobbs show have been anxiously awaiting a new one. This reviewer caught three iterat…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:42AMCaberet Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . The always glorious Broadway and cabaret star, Melissa Errico, whom this writer has reviewed often (including HERE and HERE in 2023), unveiled her exq…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25AMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When beginning this article, a line describing the heart and soul of cabaret star Ari Axelrod felt awfully familiar. That’s because the words matche…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Marissa Mulder has been making her mark on the cabaret scene for more than a decade. The Syracuse native is known for her girlish voice that evokes Bl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:14PMMusic Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Some of the greatest acts in show business history have been family acts, going back to the days of vaudeville. Some of these were musical acts, some we…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:48AMCabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . There’s this weird week between Christmas and New Year’s when everyone’s done with “the holidays” and await the New Year. Every possible hol…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:19AMYou could call Bryce Edwards, a rising star of 1923 – make that 2023 – a throwback performer, but Bryce more accurately, and magically, stepped through time a hundred years ago. His vaud…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:53PMMusic Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Peter and Will Anderson, twin brothers who hail from Maryland, are strapping, clean-cut young men whose musical sensibilities hail from another time. Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:46PMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Tony-award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Alice Ripley is best known for her big voice as a Broadway star in musicals like The Who’s Tommy, …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:55PMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . This writer reviewed Karen Akers’ well-received Water Under the Bridge cabaret show at Birdland Jazz in September 2022 (read it HERE). Ms. Akers bro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:27AMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . When composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, a seemingly endless stream of stories about personal encounters with the legend appeared on …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:46PMMusic Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . Bucky Pizzarelli was one of the greatest and most recorded jazz guitarists of all time and one of only a handful of acclaimed seven-string guitarists. (…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:00AMCabaret Review by Andrew Poretz . . . . A Los Angeles cabaret party came to The Green Room 42 with the New York debut of LA’s The Right to Cabaret on November 4, hosted by Hillary Rollins,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:24AMBy Andrew Poretz . . . Grammy and Oscar winner Howard Ashman wrote lyrics for many of the best songs of the modern Disney catalog for films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:01AMBy Andrew Poretz . . . Producer and performer Jamie deRoy packed Birdland for another of her highly entertaining and philanthropic “Jamie deRoy and Friends” shows. The show benefitted En…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:40AMBy Andrew Poretz … The delightful cabaret star Maude Maggart made a rare New York headliner appearance with “Here Come the Dreamers,” her Birdland debut. She sold out the large room up…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMBy Andrew Poretz … Following two nights of sometimes heavy material – the first honoring the music of Kurt Weill, followed by a tribute to the music and somewhat tragic life of Doris Day…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:33AMBy Andrew Poretz … Ava Nicole Francis made her New York cabaret solo debut at 54 Below on October 10. The young singer, not quite out of her teens, is a San Francisco transplant, and has a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:05AMBy Andrew Poretz . . . We last wrote about the tremendously entertaining Bryce Edwards in January, when he had his impressive solo debut with a sold-out show at Don’t Tell Mama (read HERE)…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:49AMBy Andrew Poretz … Writer, dramatist and concert/revue creator Deborah Grace Winer continued her popular Songbook Sundays series at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with more than…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMBy Andrew Poretz … Singer Kieran Brown, a very young, “up and coming” jazz and R&B singer with a strong proclivity for material from the Great American Songbook, took the stage at …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:24PMBy Andrew Poretz … Amanda McBroom, a singer-songwriter as well as a fine actress, sold out Birdland Jazz with an audience filled with bold-face names from the cabaret scene, including Mari…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:54AMBy Andrew Poretz . . . There are few singers of jazz and cabaret today more compelling than the wonderfully talented Nicolas King. The star performed a rare set of pure jazz at The Green Ro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:27AMRene Pfister is a Boston-based singer/songwriter. A newcomer to the New York cabaret scene, Pfister will make his New York debut with What I Learned from All My Ex-Boyfriends … If Anythi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:15AMThe York Theatre Company continues its fall 2023 “Musicals in Mufti” series with The Lieutenant, with book, music and lyrics by Chuck Strand, Eugene Curty and Nitra Mcauliffe. Performanc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:52AMA new theatrical, Dreams of Dracula: An Immersive Masquerade Experience,will feature two floors and six rooms across 25,000 square feet, a choose-your-own adventure journey through history�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:15AMTony Award nominee Peter Friedman (Ragtime, “Succession,” Single White Female) and Sydney Lemmon (TÁR, “Succession,” “Helstrom”) are currently in rehearsal for the world premier…
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