26th Annual NY Cabaret Convention: Duke & Hamlisch
Setting the evening’s warm-hearted style was Klea Blackhurst,
Setting the evening’s warm-hearted style was Klea Blackhurst,
What a fine and quite theatrical evening it was when Thursday at The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Cabaret Convention.
Hosted by Cabaret greats Jeff Harnar and Andrea Marcovicci, the second program of the New York Cabaret Convention was A Sentimental Journey: World War II Songs.
“Another op’nin’, another show….” were the first words we heard at another opening of yet another show.
If you want a romantic night out on the town without every leaving your house, this is your recording.
Jennifer Sheehan has got that Cole Porter “certain thing” — special, sensational, smashing.
Liz Callaway Celebrate 54 Below,…
Susan Winter is an unaffected professional. She sings as if from a place of truthful observation, making lyrics seem personal.
In their fabulous show at 54 Below, Some Enchanted Evening, Amanda McBroom and her husband, George Ball, sang of love, marriage, time, loss, and a theme that has always characterized Amanda’s own songwriting—the gap between dreams and reality, between a couple’s hope to be in love forever, and of settling down to an existence of “comfortable despair.”
Susan Winter is an unaffected professional. She sings as if from a place of truthful observation, making lyrics seem personal.