Marilyn Maye: Marilyn by Request (January)–Metropolitan Room

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Marilyn Maye

By Request

Metropolitan Room, NYC,  January 4, 2015

Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes

Photo: Kevin Alvey
Photo: Kevin Alvey

The lady is a-Maye-zing — especially enjoyed just four chairs away in the intimacy of the Metropolitan Room on a quiet Sunday night. “I love what I do,” Marilyn Maye told her the audience, and her exuberant non-stop performance proved it. With a minimum of patter, she performed one song after another with zest, bantering with her top-of-the-line trio — Billy Stritch on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass, and Daniel Glass on drums — and with her audience.

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The set list each night of the run was created from song requests audience members were encouraged to make when they phoned in their reservations.

Launching her show with a jazzy, swinging “Cabaret,” Marilyn moved into a Cole Porter medley which included “you” romances such as “Looking at You,” “I Concentrate on You,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (as she leaned forward to caress a front-row patron), “All of You” and “Just One of Those Things” (this one with Glass’s fast drum solo). Rainbows, too, were treated to the Maye manner as she wove together a gentle “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” “Over the Rainbow,” “Make Me Rainbows” and the sweet, moving “Rainbow Connection.” With “My Man,” she poked fun at the line “he beats me, too” — as if anyone would dare accost this beloved broad — and launched into a medley of “man” songs, including “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “Losing My Mind” and “The Man That Got Away.

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Her closing numbers echoed the triumph of the spirit — those of the characters in her songs as well as Marilyn’s own: “I Will Survive”!, “I’m Still Here”!, “Here’s to Life”!, and what has become the theme song of this 80-years-plus entertainment dynamo: “It’s Today”!
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Long may there be “tomorrows” for Marilyn Maye!

(Photo: Kevin Alvey)

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Peter Haas

Writer, editor, lyricist and banjo plunker, Peter Haas has been contributing features and performance reviews for Cabaret Scenes since the magazine’s infancy. As a young folk-singer, he co-starred on Channel 13’s first children’s series, Once Upon a Day; wrote scripts, lyrics and performed on Pickwick Records’ children’s albums, and co-starred on the folk album, All Day Singing. In a corporate career, Peter managed editorial functions for CBS Records and McGraw-Hill, and today writes for a stable of business magazines. An ASCAP Award-winning lyricist, his work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Feinstein’s, Metropolitan Room and other fine saloons.