By Marilyn Lester***The title of Susan Mack‘s show at Birdland Theater, Music in the Air, is a great indication of what the show’s about and how much Mack loves jazz. The eponymous tune, as she […]
By Marilyn Lester***Cabaret tribute shows can be tricky—the task is for the creator to find a balance between inhabiting the persona of the honoree while maintaining an identity of self. In Dawn Derow Sings Eydie […]
By Marilyn Lester***Broadway triple-threat, T. Oliver Reid can always be depended on to deliver plenty of polish and great satisfaction in his cabaret shows. A Sunday Kind of Love on Valentine’s Eve at Birdland Theater […]
By Marilyn Lester*** Since winning the Tony Award in 2006 for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, playing the role of Frankie Valli in Broadway’s Jersey Boys, John Lloyd Young has built a superstar nightclub […]
By Marilyn Lester***There were so many points in this amazing evening of A Collective Cy that a collective sigh of unanimous appreciation for Jeff Harnar turned the atmosphere of Birdland Jazz Club electric. Passersby might […]
By Marilyn Lester***A heck of a lot happened in 1941. This is a fact that came to Dawn Derow’s attention several years ago, and upon which she built the superlative cabaret show, My Ship: Songs […]
By Marilyn Lester***If there’s a soul left in the world who doesn’t yet know why Broadway and cabaret doyenne and concert-recording artist Karen Mason is a star—capital “Sâ€â€”they need only look to her recent Christmas! […]
By Marilyn Lester***Suppose you were magically deposited in an audience seat (sans program) at a performance of Ludlow Ladd (The Poor Little Orphan Boy). The moment the chorus of “Kooky Carolers” took the stage you […]
By Marilyn Lester***For those who know pianist Tedd Firth mainly as a crackerjack accompanist/musical director/arranger to stars such as Melissa Errico, Karen Akers, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christine Ebersole, Marilyn Maye and many others, there’s a […]
By Marilyn Lester***Fast-rising jazz star Anaïs Reno came home to Birdland to celebrate her debut CD, Lovesome Thing, the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, released during pandemic lockdown. As expected of this great […]
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