Stephen Mosher
The Storyteller
Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, October 22, 2017
Reviewed by Bart Greenberg for Cabaret Scenes
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Stephen Mosher made a surprising cabaret debut after a career as a photographer, an author, a social media motivator, and a documentary film star. And, he assured the audience that packed the room, he has been a storyteller all his life.
His confident skill in sharing the stories of his life — in both spoken word and song — belies his virgin status. Incredibly charming, he offered up tales of three generations of his family as Hollywood costume designers, circus stunt folks, and cultural barrier-breakers. The fact that these delightful tales managed to include Mae West, Edith Head, and Dame Maggie Smith made them all the richer, as did his ability to bring each to life.
Woven into these stories were carefully selected songs that both entertained and illuminated. They were also all numbers that made him happy. Delivering the title tune of Can-Can, he breezed through the lyrics with clarity and speed. He admitted that the Cole Porter work had traveled the course from racy to racist, which made him love it even more. Other witting words he embraced included “Zip” and “My Strongest Suit.
” Besides his clear diction, he brought to the stage a pleasant voice that flowed between a whiskey tenor and a Bea Arthur baritone.
Mosher was well supported by singer/songwriter Jen Houston, Dan Tracy (who provided a beautiful solo guitar accompaniment to the singer’s delivery of “Go Slow, Johnny”), Don Kelly, and musical director Ricky Pope.
If there was a flaw in the show, it was that it ran about 10 minutes too long.
But this is a rookie mistake, easy to fix. Hopefully, this isn’t the last New York’s cabaret stages have seen of Stephen Mosher.
