It’s time to… Travel, as the two-time MAC Award-winning DooWop harmony group, Barbarino and The BevNaps return with their newest show at The Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 W. 42 St.,, NYC) on Saturday, November 14 at 9:30 PM. Lead vocalist Scott Barbarino is joined by musical director-pianist and sometime backup vocalist, Mark
Hartman, plus the BevNaps: Anna Anderson and Dylan Berkshire. Special guests Katelyn Lauria, JD Smurthwaite and Pemberton also join the fun! For more information and tickets, click here.
When the BevNaps debuted this show a few months back at The Beech, we held on to the review for the right time… and that is unequivocally now, because: The BevNaps Scored Big at The Laurie Beechman Theatre
By Marilyn Lester***What a fabulous, refreshing and super-charged evening at The Laurie Beechman Theatre as the Doo Wop group Scott Barbarino and The BevNaps performed hits of that era in Travel. The genre isn’t one you’re likely to hear in cabaret rooms and more’s the pity for it as the BevNaps reminded us—a thoroughly delighted audience—how cool and hip the music is. Doo wop is all about vocal harmonies, and rhythmic backing, often with stylistic features thrown in, such as deep bass to high falsetto vocals. Here, the flavor and essence of Doo Wop’s classic numbers was deftly and enthusiastically handled by Ann Anderson and Dylan Berkshire, with pianist-singer Mark 
Hartman anchoring the group.
Hartman is an original BevNap, a group that won 1999 and 2000 MAC awards. Flash forward to the present, and with his original arrangements, wit, humor and joie-de-vivre energy, the evening ended all too soon. Beautifully constructed and paced, there were beautiful harmonies in tunes such as “You Belong to Me,” “Twilight Time” and “These Foolish Things.” Berkshire delivered “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” solo with his fine baritone, and Anderson was duly evocative with “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” Hartman, with historical perspective of the group’s history (including the origin of their name in Downtown piano bar culture) and the genre, was also in vocally fine form. Musical support came from the superb trio of electric bassist Ian Jesse, drummer Drew Bastian and Ryan Weisheit, who offered color and another voice via his tenor saxophone.
Move over Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Cadillacs, The Duprees, The Drifters and The Flamingos—The BevNaps are back!
Photos by Conor Weiss
