Kathryne Langford Continues Run of “For What It’s Worth” at Don’t Tell Mama on September 7th and November 13th

Actress/singer Kathryn Langford is back at Don’t Tell Mama (343 West 46th St, between 8th & 9th Ave), after a five-year absence, with her new show, For What It’s  Worth, launched earlier this year and continuing on Friday, September 7 and Tuesday, November 13, both at 7 PM. The show features the title song by Stephen Stills, along with tunes by Bob Dylan, Lennon & McCartney, Sting, David Frishberg, Johnny Mercer, Henri Mancini and more. Langford’s director is the multiple MAC Award-winning Lennie Watts, with Wells Hanley as Music Director and arranger, Henry Fraser on bass, and Mike Lunoe or Rex Benincasa on percussion.

For What It’s  Worth is topical. The line in the title song: “There’s a man with a gun over there, telling me I’ve got to beware,” is, according to Langford, very relevant to these times. “Before the 2016 Presidential election,”she says, “I had been considering a totally different show, but after the election I didn’t think it would be appropriate. Then I thought about songs I had sung at many civil rights marches in the late 1960s and this particular show idea just came to me.”  

Langford was the proverbial “late bloomer” when she decided to launch her cabaret singing career in 2007 at age 62. Her performance in Dividing Day, a show inspired by the Adam Guettel Broadway Musical The Light In The Piazza, earned her a 2008 MAC Nomination for “Best Female Debut” and praise from Cabaret icon Jan Wallman, who called Langford “A beautiful blonde singer who can really use her excellent voice.” Five years later, Langford returned to the cabaret stage with a show at Don’t Tell Mama called Jazz and Cocktails. BroadwayWorld.com reported that “Lush and languid would be the operative words for the soft, smoky alto Langford employed for a set of songs that you might hear in a hotel piano bar during a romantic rendezvous.”

To make reservations to Kathryne Langford’s For What It’s Worth at Don’t Tell Mama, click here or call 212-757-0788 (after 4:00 PM). The cover for all shows is $15, with a 2-drink minimum (cash only).