By Michael Portantiere***Wildcat, which opened on Broadway in December 1960 with television icon Lucille Ball as its star, and closed the following June after a troubled run of 171 performances, is probably not on anyone’s […]
By Marilyn Lester***Is there such a thing as a perfect perfect storm? The answer is moot since Broadway, film and TV star Carole Demas created one at 54 Below. Her show, Firefly, was sheer perfection […]
By Andrew Poretz***Most audiences get up to leave a movie the moment they see “The End” on the screen. If you’re the rare type who stays through to the final credit, you have no doubt […]
By Maryann Lopinto***Prior to her upcoming Stephen Sondheim concert in London, Tony®-nominated Broadway star and writer Melissa Errico offered an evening of Stephen Sondheim songs and stories about her friend and teacher. She worked with […]
By Michael Portantiere***Actor-singer-Sirius XM radio host Christine Pedi brought the third edition of her scintillating series of shows titled The Wicked Stage: Songs About Show Business back to 54 Below—and while it wouldn’t be accurate […]
By Andrew Poretz***There really is no one quite like Storm Large. Her name is real, and she lives up to it. She has a larger-than-life presence (tall, quite fit), with a big voice (though soft […]
By Andrew Poretz*** For London-born singer-songwriter, Tessa Souter, her new album, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project, is an ambitious work nearly 20 years in the making. The accomplished singer, of Afro-Trinidadian and English […]
By Marilyn Lester***Perfect storms in the meteorologic sense come rarely. Perfect storms in a broader and good way are probably rarer still. When Marion Cowings and AC Lincoln brought their talents to Dizzy’s Club on […]
By Marilyn Lester***When Andrea McArdle stepped onto the stage of the newly reconceived Laurie Beechman Theatre, it was a wildly applauded homecoming of sorts. For starters, when Annie opened in April 1977, 13-year-old McArdle in the […]
By Maryann Lopinto***The latest edition of the award-winning Sondheim Unplugged featured a cast of power-ladies, not lunching, but singing at 54 Below. The long-running series first began in 2010, created by Phil Geoffrey Bond, at […]
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