Best known for his Broadway hits, Hello Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles, the master of hummable showtunes, Jerry Herman, died on December 26 in Miami, FL. Herman had complained of chest pains, was […]
Hubert “Tex Arnold” (March 2, 1945 – August 22, 2019), pianist, arranger, music director and composer has died from complications following a sudden stroke. In a career spanning a half century, Tex Arnold worked successfully […]
It’s with sadness that we report the death of cabaret legend Baby Jane Dexter, who passed away after an extended illness. The 72-year old performer was long a mainstay in the New York City Cabaret […]
George Bettinger (June 22, 1962 – August 3, 2018) Veteran radio host and comedian George Bettinger passed away on Friday, August 3, 2018, at his home in Miramar, Florida, at the age of 56. The […]
By Penny Landau****Although she was best known for her work on the sitcom “The Facts of Life,” Charlotte Rae had a six-decade career as a singer, Broadway performer and television actress, dating back to the 1940s. […]
By John Hoglund**** The cabaret community is mourning one of their own with the sudden passing of Collette Black on June 5, who died as a result of breast cancer complications. She was 63. Her […]
The composer, performer and polymath of music, Bob Dorough, died on Monday, April 23 at age 94. Dorough was known primarily as a bop and cool jazz pianist and singer, but gained another kind of […]
Singer-pianist Audrey Morris was an icon of Chicago cabaret, much in the same way that the late Julie Wilson came to be adored and revered in New York City. Her colleagues and fans readily agreed […]
Wesla Whitfield, the San Francisco Bay Area jazz and cabaret singer who devoted her musical life to the Great American Songbook, died on Friday, February 9, at her home in St. Helena, CA. The cause […]
By PENNY LANDAU **** Legendary jazz vocalist Keely Smith passed away on Saturday, December 16, 2017, in Palm Springs, California. She was 89 and had been suffering from heart failure. Smith’s son-in-law and long-time musical director, Dennis […]
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