The 92Y School of Music continues its interview series, Cabaret Conversations, now in its second year, led by award-winning cabaret historian and performer, Michael Kirk Lane. Welcoming performers, directors, and journalists, these conversations will delve into the history and current state of this performance style. Each conversation also includes a Q&A session for the participants. The schedule is as follows:
Jan 24, 2022: Sherry Eaker and Roy Sander of The Bistro Awards
Sherry Eaker has been producing the Bistro Awards, an award given to cabaret and jazz artists, since the awards’ inception in 1985. The Bistro Awards are now entering its 37th year. She served as Editor in Chief of Back Stage, the performing arts trade paper, for over 30 years (1977-2008). She compiled and edited four editions of the Back Stage Handbook for Performing Artists, and compiled and edited the Cabaret Artists Handbook—Creating Your Own Act in Today’s Liveliest Theater Setting. Sherry is a member of the National Theatre Conference and the American Theatre Critics Association, serves on the Board of the League of Professional Theatre Women, and is an advisor to the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition and the Manhattan Association of Cabarets.
Roy Sander has been covering cabaret and theatre for over thirty years. He’s written reviews, features, and commentary for seven print publications, most notably Back Stage, and fo. CitySearch and BistroAwards.com on the Internet. He covered cabaret on New York Theatre Review on PBS TV, and cabaret and theatre on WLIM-FM radio. He was twice a guest instructor at the London School of Musical Theatre and chairman of the judges of the MetroStar Talent Challenge for the Competition’s 10-year run. He first participated in selecting Bistro Award winners and putting on the annual Awards show in 1993; in 2013 he became the show’s Associated Producer. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of MAC.
Feb 28, 2022: Adam Feldman
Adam Feldman is the Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic for Time Out New York, where he has been a staff writer since 2003. He covers Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater, as well as cabaret and dance shows and other events of interest in New York City. He is the President of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, a position he has held since 2005.
Mar 28, 2022: Marta Sanders
Marta Sanders was in the original Broadway production of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. She is a graduate of The American Musical Academy, where she studied voice with the great Paul Gavert. She has been singing in cabarets and nightclubs in NYC and around the world ever since. Sanders has won the MAC and BISTRO Awards for “Outstanding Female Vocalist.” In 2018 she won the BISTRO Award for “Consummate Cabaret Artistry.” In 2019 Marta joined forces with Leanne Borghesi to create Showbroads, which debuted Upstairs at Birdland to sell out houses and rave reviews.
The 92Y School of Music will also be offering new sessions of Lane’s Cabaret History and Great Performances on Thursdays, from 6:30-7:45 pm ET, February 3-24 and Cabaret Performance: Connecting to Your Lyric on Thursdays, from 8-9:30 pm ET, February 3- March 4.
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