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Monday, May 25, 2015

Songbook Standards Flavored With Barbecue in an Escargot Cafe by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Steve Tyrell, a Burt Bacharach protégé from Houston, is in his sixth season at the Café Carlyle.

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Sunny Approach To Mordant Lyricist by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Stefanie Powers, in her New York cabaret debut, “Hart of My Heart,” refers to Lorenz Hart and Ms. Powers’s long-running television series, “Hart to Hart.”

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’60s Sweatshop Girls Fighting Ford by STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Made in Dagenham” is a feminist fairy tale based on actual events whose heroine, a composite of real-life women, leads Ford workers in the battle for equal pay.

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Music Review: Isn’t It Rich? Isn’t It Loud? Xylophones for Sondheim by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The New York Pops orchestra, joined by singers, played Stephen Sondheim songs in peppy arrangements at Carnegie Hall.

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Cabaret Review: A ‘Dynasty’ Diva Regales Us With Her Own Life Stories by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The most impressive stunt in “One Night With Joan,” a lighthearted, unrevealing autobiographical compendium of reminiscences and remarks, accompanied by dimly projected film clip…

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Poet’s Grim Prophecies, With Drama and Music by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Ute Lemper, in a program at Joe’s Pub, takes listeners on a journey through the poetry of Charles Bukowski.

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Music Review: Broadway Cowboy of Australia by STEPHEN HOLDEN

David Campbell, the Australian pop singer, is back in New York in a show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency celebrating his recent CD, “On Broadway.”

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The Dark Lady and Judy Garland Play the Muses by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Rufus Wainwright performs a cycle of 12 songs that includes his adaptation of Shakespeare sonnets.

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Snowy Jingles and a Sinatra ‘Dreidel’ by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The religious aspect is absent from Michael Feinstein’s annual end-of-the year shows at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.

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A Trouper Unleashes Backstage Tales by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The British entertainer Bonnie Langford delivers a compendium of songs and showbiz anecdotes in “Bonnie Langford Spends Christmas in New York.”

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Celebrating Mama’s Rainbow by STEPHEN HOLDEN

In “Songs My Mother Taught Me: The Judy Garland Songbook” at Feinstein’s, Lorna Luft performed tunes made famous by Garland and offered biographical tidbits.

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Real Guitar Hero, Through the Years by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Bucky Pizzarelli was the guest of honor at Lyrics & Lyricists, but it was a family affair.

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Music Review: Still Connected to ‘Rent,’ but Not Afraid to Branch Out by Stephen Holden

Two veterans of “Rent” revisit that show but also perform some of their original material.

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An Appraisal: Voice and Career That Always Said, ‘It Might as Well Be Spring’ by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Margaret Whiting, a daughter of Hollywood’s golden age, was a loving caretaker of the American Songbook.

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Music Review: This Bowl of Cherries Offers Food for Thought by Stephen Holden

Christine Ebersole’s new show at the Café Carlyle includes songs from her Broadway hit “Grey Gardens” in a larger meditation on youth and age.

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Music Review: With Some Friends to Help, a Songwriter Reveals His World by Stephen Holden

Lance Horne and friends gave an evening of his theater songs as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series.

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Songs in Several Languages, Wisecracks Spread Throughout by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The musical comedy team of Michael Garin and Mardie Millit take a whirlwind world tour at the Metropolitan Room.

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Return to Civility, With Wit and Rhyme by STEPHEN HOLDEN

In his show at the Oak Room of the Algonquin, Steve Ross camouflages animal instinct under a veneer of wit.

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In Refrains, Echoes of Political Strife by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The Collegiate Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra performed a concert version of “Knickerbocker Holiday,” Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s 1938 Broadway show.

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Lighthearted, With a Soupçon of Self-Mockery by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Brooke Shields makes her cabaret debut with “In My Life,” an autobiographical soufflé of monologues stitched together by songs, at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.

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Mary Cleere Haran Injured in Florida by Stephen Holden

The noted cabaret singer is hurt while biking.

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Mary Cleere Haran, Cabaret Singer With a Big-Band Style, Dies at 58 by Stephen Holden

Ms. Haran sang with a remarkably pure voice in a simple pop-jazz style that echoed big band singers of the 1940s.

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Easygoing Look at Determined Women by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Anika Noni Rose gave her New York cabaret debut, and Joan Osborne unveiled a song cycle, both part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.

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Music Review: A Bedroom Voice to Match His Eyes by Stephen Holden

In a return engagement, the suave baritone Paulo Szot tries to complete his crossover from opera singer to pop crooner.

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A Touch Of ‘Finian’ Friskiness by STEPHEN HOLDEN

“On a Clear Day: The Musical Vision of Burton Lane,” at the 92 Street Y, yielded a program of the composer’s Broadway and film tunes, including the frisky Irish-flavored sc…

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The Dreamer Caught in the Spotlight by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Judy Collins began her latest residency at the Café Carlyle singing meditations by Stephen Sondheim, Jacques Brel and Tim Buckley.

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She’s Young, Restless and a Bit Dreamy by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Maude Maggart takes a journey through Berlin, Porter, Blitzstein, Sondheim and more in her new show at the Oak Room.

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American Songbook’s Afro-Cuban Connection by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Raúl Esparza brought out the Afro-Cuban lineage in the American songbook at the Allen Room.

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Pop, Soul and Show Tunes in a Quest for Lifelong Love by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The former “American Idol” finalist Melinda Doolittle sang soul numbers, show tunes and pop snippets at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.

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Traveling to the Stars, No Joy or Romance Needed by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Shepley Metcalf sings the music of Fran Landesman at the Metropolitan Room.

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Showering the Songwriter With Love and His Words by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Kate Baldwin opened her new show, “She Loves Him,” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday.

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