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 […]
By Marilyn Lester***As promised, following NLE publisher Scott Barbarino‘s preview review of the musical comedy My Ex-Husband’s Funeral, this “official” review puts a second seal of approval of this work-in-progress. To recap, according to Barbarino: […]
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. […]
By Scott Barbarino***My Ex Husband’s Funeral: a show by Lisa Ellex in its infancy and just getting up on its feet, is already pretty fantastic and funny. It’s being developed at Don’t Tell Mama, and […]
By Marilyn Lester***The wondrous Sidney Myer was the hottest ticket in town with Sidney Myer Rides Again! during his annual end-of-year residency at Pangea. All performances were SOLD OUT—and with good reason. Just as the […]
By Marilyn Lester***Tradition! So sings Tevye and company at the opening of Fiddler on the Roof—and Norm Lewis has certainly established one of his own at 54 Below. In Norm Lewis: Christmas Lives Here, this […]
By Marilyn Lester***That swingin’ seasonal tradition, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra‘s (JLCO) Big Band Holidays, offered a residency this year at Rose Theater that “brought new life to classic tunes”—goal achieved. But for its […]
By Marilyn Lester***The new Tom Hanks-fueled play, This World of Tomorrow, with Kelli O’Hara, pretty much inhabits the world we need for today. It’s full of humor, sweetness, positivity and a subtle gravitas that builds […]
By Marilyn Lester***In recent programming looking beyond Great American Songbook staples, the 92NY Lyrics & Lyricists season opener zeroed in on modern classics with “Motown’s Heat Wave: The Songs of Holland-Dozier-Holland,” And it was a sizzler. […]
By Marilyn Lester***It seems that every so often an ethereal culture-loving presence—a genie? sprite? sorcerer? fairy?— sprinkles magic dust over a given artistic performance, resulting in something extraordinarily special. So it was with the New […]
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