Boston News: March/April 2015

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Valerie Anastasio and Tim Harbold will continue their new show, In the Mood—A Time Capsule of Classics from 1939, featuring songs from The Wizard of Oz and such favorites as “All the Things You Are” and “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady,” 3/1 at the Longy School, Cambridge, presented by American Classics. American Classics continues with Tin Pan Opera, where Tin Pan Alley goes to the opera house with songs all about opera, including many based on opera repertoire, and about the great opera singers. Benjamin Sears and Bradford Conner will lead a cadre of cabaret, musical theater and opera singers in this clever musical mash-up, 4/24 at Follen Church, Lexington and 4/26 at the Longy School.

John O’Neil reprises his First Monday series at The Napoleon Room at the Club Café, where he features a different special guest each Monday: Kyle Hemingway Dickenson 3/9; Beverly Beckham 3/16; David Dalena 3/23, Rod Ferguson 3/30; and Donna Brescia 4/6. While he’s in a mood for reprises, O’Neil will team with old friends Jan Peters and Carol O’Shaughnessy proclaiming There We Were!, the trio having last performed together 17 years ago! This time out, they will celebrate their musical past, present and future in an evening of memories, music and mayhem, also at the Club Café 3/30 & 31.
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Returning to the Boston area after his sensational run as J.M. Barrie in the musical Finding Neverland at the ART in Cambridge, Jeremy Jordan will be Breaking Character in his Boston-area solo debut, offering songs from his past and future theater, film and television career, including Newsies, Smash, and the upcoming release of The Last 5 Years, at the Carling-Sorenson Theater, Babson College, Wellesley 4/26.

Scullers Jazz Club gets back into the swing of things with the soulful jazz stylings of Roseanna Vitro providing Clarity: The Music of Clare Fischer 3/5. In a rare small venue appearance, Tony Award-winning Betty Buckley will grace the oak-paneled room featuring songs from her recently released recording Ghostlight 3/13 & 14. Cassandre McKinley will bring her soul-infused jazz vocals to the venue 3/18, accompanied by local jazz pianist Paul Broadnax. And Grammy winner Patti Austin will swing her American Songbook repertoire around the club 3/20 & 21. Jazz chanteuse Donna Byrne, who counts Tony Bennett among her legions of fans, rounds things out 4/16.

John Amodeo

John Amodeo has been a contributing writer to Cabaret Scenes since 1998, has written cabaret articles for Theatermania.com, was a cabaret journalist for Bay Windows (1999-2005), and then for Edge Publications (2005-present).  John has been producer, assistant producer, and host for several Boston-area cabaret galas over the past 25 years, and produced Brian De Lorenzo’s MACC-nominated recording “Found Treasures.” His liner notes grace several cabaret CDs. John holds degrees in landscape architecture from Cornell and Harvard Universities, and has been practicing landscape architecture in Boston for 35 years, where he is a partner in his firm. John was a founding member of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists (BACA), and served as BACA Vice President for 2 terms. He is happily married to his favorite cabaret artist Brian De Lorenzo.