My latest photo journal features images from multi-award-winning director-performer Jeff Harnar‘s last performance in a month-long Thursday-night series of Blame It on My Youth shows at Don’t Tell Mama—with the fabulous pianist Alex Rybeck as […]
By Marilyn Lester***In 2016, a cabaret newbie stepped onto the Brick Room stage at Don’t Tell Mama and conquered it. The rest, as they say, is history. Revisiting that room with Love for Sale: Celebrating […]
The dynamic duo of singer Jeff Harnar and music director-pianist-arranger Alex Rybeck are proving you CAN go home again with their gorgeous show, Blame It on My Youth. The multi-award-winning Harnar is not only a […]
By Marilyn Lester***It’s too bad Cole Porter isn’t around to add another verse to “You’re the Top,” for it would surely laud the partnership of Jeff Harnar and Alex Rybeck as the top in cabaret. […]
Apparently you CAN go home again! Vocalist Jeff Harnar and music director-pianist Alex Rybeck revisit songs from the shows they performed at Don’t Tell Mama in the 1980’s, when the pair began their 42-year-long musical […]
By Bart Greenberg***After 15 years, sisters Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway brought their celebration of the music of the 1960s and ’70s, Boom!– the songs they grew up with – back to 54Below. And the […]
On the eve of Frank Sinatra’s birthday, Christy Trapp gets “frank” with a woman’s perspective on a man’s perspective, in this encore performance of a new show about Sinatra’s standards and double standards. The Tender […]
By Michael Portantiere***We in NYC certainly have no dearth of Broadway revivals (and revisals), but in this reviewer’s experience, it’s extremely rare for a classic cabaret show to be recreated many years after the fact, […]
The cabaret and concert star (and very successful cabaret director), Jeff Harnar, actually had youthful dreams of performing in musicals on the Great White Way. But the allure of the cabaret stage captured him early […]
Cabaret star Jeff Harnar revisits The 1959 Broadway Songbook at Birdland on Monday, October 6 at 7 PM, with music director, Alex Rybeck, bassist Tom Hubbard and drummer Dan Gross.The show is is directed by […]
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