NiteLife Exchanges is a streaming video interview show, with hosts Scott Barbarino and Tony Javed. In this edition they welcome Cynthia Crane.
With her trademark flaming red hair, Cynthia Crane, a New York City-born singer/chantuese, not only starred in nightclubs and cabaret rooms up and down the East Coast, but performed in summer stock, Off-Broadway, and for the USO abroad. With Ted Story (who would become her husband), George Ferencz, and Pam Mitchell, she co-founded The Impossible Ragtime Theatre, producing more than 100 plays. She’s also the progeny of a well-to-do three-generation native New York family—her father founded the Crane Oxygen and Ambulance Service. Her singing style is informed by a youth listening to songs performed by singers, big bands, from musical comedies and the movies of the 1930s and 1940s. Her husky-voiced delivery could also be irreverent or ironic as well as compelling.
Crane is the recipient of a Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist, has released eight albums, and is a past Secretary of the Board of Directors of MAC (Manhattan Society of Cabarets and Clubs), where she served for seven years. Currently she is a member of the Society of Singers, International Women in Jazz, MAC, NARAS and Women in Music and a long list of governmental and community groups. Read more about this fascinating woman here.
