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 11:02AMDogfight 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 dri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:05PMIs that beloved, spunky, optimistic little redhead showing her age? To answer with a song title from the Annie score: Maybe.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AMOne 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 re…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:25AMDig 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 10:50PMOne 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 01:42PMWelcome to the sophistication and very grown-up world of No�l 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 05:23PMIn 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 12:20PMTwo 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 11:49AMDifferent 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 08:17AMWe 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 11:21AMAlthough 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 10:15AMNorbert 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 11:11AMSince 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 11:44AMIn 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 10:27AMWhether 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... 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 02:07PMMAC 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... 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 01:42PMShe'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 06:55PMMaria 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 01:09PMYou can say that all musical theatre roads liltingly lead back to composer Jerome Kern.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:44PMContext 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 09:18AMPatti 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"Retirement." It's not even a thought for performers Barbara Cook and Joel Grey or writers Sheldon Harnick and Sherman Yellen.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PMBeyond the usual Top Ten Vocals, there are a couple of other special honorees.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:36PMThese 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 09:27AMLet's leap into the new year with looks at two new cast recordings, both courtesy of the invaluable Ghostlight Records label.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMThis 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 11:39AMRecommended listening comes from vocalists who've perked up my ears and piqued my interest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AMBrian Stokes Mitchell, Telly Leung, Robert Cuccioli and Natalie Toro.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39PM
