Monday, May 25, 2015
The New York Pops, with Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft and guest singers, tries the impossible: to recreate Garland’s famous 1961 Carnegie Hall concert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds to World War II,” a Lyrics & Lyricist show at the 92nd Street Y, was informative history and a breezy evocation of national solidarity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMMr. Martin’s credits included “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “The Boy Next Door,” and “The Trolley Song.”
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Megan Hilty, known for roles on the TV show “Smash” and in an Encores! concert of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” brings her touch to Café Carlyle.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
This revue at the 92nd St Y smoothly accomplishes what Depression-era movie musicals did so skillfully: whisked you away to a realm of pure entertainment and made difficult look easy!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMAs promised, there was plenty of singing and dancing in this show at the 92nd Street Y, reminiscent of Berlin’s movie musicals.
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
The actress and singer, who won a Tony for her role in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” sang songs by Led Zeppelin and Elton John.
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The singer, who made a comeback in New York clubs after retiring from musical acting to raise her sons, was 90.
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This drama based on real-life traces the legal battle by Ms. Mirren’s character to regain possession of a priceless canvas stolen from her family by the Nazis 60 years earlier.
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At 87, in the twilight of her career, Ms. Cook’s concert at the packed Appel Room drew audience members who came to pay tribute and to bask in her still-radiant presence.
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Judy Kuhn sang music from three generations of the Richard Rodgers dynasty as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.
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Stephen Sondheim and Steve Reich chatted and compared notes onstage at a Lincoln Center American Songbook concert that illustrated their mutual interests.
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Billy Porter fuses Broadway, pop and gospel in his performances at the Appel Room, part of the American Songbook series.
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As it begins a 16th season, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series has its most adventurous offerings yet.
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Monday, January 12, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Mary Testa shows she can belt à la Ethel Merman and intertwine the music of devastation with that of utter joy.
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Cabaret is alive, stirring up excitement and receiving transfusions — thanks to young newcomers and old rockers — but no one can honestly say it’s in great health.
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“Into the Woods,” Rob Marshall’s Disney screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, is a mash-up of Grimm fairy tales viewed through a post-Freudian prism.
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
Liv Ullmann’s version of Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” features Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell as class-bound lovers repelled and attracted by each other in a battle of the sexes.
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Annaleigh Ashford juggles a cabaret act at 54 Below with her Broadway role in “You Can’t Take It With You” and her TV role as Betty in “Masters of Sex.”
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
In “Breaking Character,” his nightclub act at 54 Below, the Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan shows a range that surpasses teen-idol appeal.
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There were fewer chanteuses onstage at this year’s New York Cabaret Convention than in the past, and a lot more male performers.
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