By Chip Deffaa***I’m sorry to note the passing of Rex Reed. He was 87. And it’s startling for me to write that he was 87, because to me he was always the handsome, dashing young […]
By Chip Deffaa***I was shaken by the passing on January 22nd—due to complications from a stroke he suffered in July 2023—of entertainer Floyd Vivino. To countless fans, he was “Uncle Floyd,” the comic who rose […]
Bruce Paul Hopkins, a director and a cabaret performer—well-known in the cabaret community—was perhaps most well-known as a star of the bewigged and bejeweled all male opera troupe La Gran Scena Opera Company. He was […]
Editor’s Note: With the Laurie Beechman Theatre about to reopen, here’s a Who Was Who! about the talented actress-vocalist for whom the venue was named. Laurie Hope Beechman was born on April 4, 1953 and […]
Entertainer, Jerry Scott, pictured below on the left, spent 40 years as a popular singer-pianist with a huge following in Manhattan and beyond. Scott died on April 4, 2013 at age 67, after a struggle […]
Comedienne Beverly ‘Pudgy” Wines became an icon when female comics were rare; there was Phyllis Diller and Totie Fields, with Joan Rivers yet to really emerge. Pudgy grew up on Chicago’s West Side and eventually […]
Editor’s Note: Although he’s not a performer from the past, we remember John Minnock (1959-2024) now to celebrate his posthumous album release on April 26 via Dot Time Records. The recording, A Different Riff: Minnock […]
By Kati Neiheisel***This February 4 would have been Barry Levitt‘s 77th birthday. Now, more than six years after his passing, the cabaret, jazz and musical theater worlds still reel in disbelief that the pianist, arranger, […]
Before he began interviewing Broadway performers, Rick McKay sang in cabarets and on cruise ships; he also produced segments about the arts on television station WNET (channel 13), among other TV projects. It seemed inevitable […]
Several years ago, we launched the Who Was Who! series with singer-songwriter Charles DeForest, who was active in New York’s clubs from 1954 until his death from metastatic colon cancer in July of 1996. Now, […]
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