Another Slightly Twisted Revue

Post author:Bart Greenberg
Post published: April 13, 2026
Reading time:2 mins read

Another Slightly Twisted Revue

Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, April 8, 2026

Reviewed by Bart Greenberg

Three charming people of a certain age got together (for the third time) to present Another Slightly Twisted Revue at Don’t Tell Mama. Miriam Fond (director), Paul Chamlin (music director/pianist), and Gerry Levine offered a program of sketches and songs from various sources for a quick hour-plus program. They switched off on the vocals and the acting and used with quick changes of hats and accessories to delineate characters. The material was variable, but the show moved so quickly from one thought to another that it hardly mattered.

The opening number, which promised a “typical topical revue,” was a bit misleading as little of the material was “topical.” The following number, which announced that “we are not singing Stephen Sondheim here,” was hardly au courant, though it was very clever: “I’m sending out the clowns/never thought they’d leave.” Fond delivered the last line as almost an ad lib in a perfectly dead pan style. A later sketch about a “cabaret shrink” was amusing, but the song that followed was an oddity and a bit distasteful—“Mucus,” which was sung to the melody of the far more clever “Garbage” (Sheldon Harnick).

Levine had fun with a cheerfully lurid tale about the balcony of the Loewe’s Sheridan Square movie theater (torn down in 1969). He also delighted us with the complaint that “A Mugger’s Work Is Never Done.” Chamlin provided smooth musical support throughout and chimed in with character play as well. If the entire evening was not remarkable, it was certainly filled with heart and enough highlights to counter the low moments. One more thing: Fond gave possibly the most amusing and charming thank-you speech heard in this room in a long time.

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Bart Greenberg

Bart Greenberg first discovered cabaret a few weeks after arriving in New York City by seeing Julie Wilson and William Roy performing Stephen Sondheim and Cole Porter outdoors at Rockefeller Center. It was instant love for both Ms. Wilson and the art form. Some years later, he was given the opportunity to create his own series of cabaret shows while working at Tower Records. "Any Wednesday" was born, a weekly half-hour performance by a singer promoting a new CD release. Ann Hampton Callaway launched the series. When Tower shut down, Bart was lucky to move the program across the street to Barnes & Noble, where it thrived under the generous support of the company. The series received both The MAC Board of Directors Award and The Bistro Award. Some of the performers who took part in "Any Wednesday" include Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock, Tony Desare, Andrea Marcovicci, Carole Bufford, the Karens, Akers, Mason and Oberlin, and Julie Wilson. Privately, Greenberg is happily married to writer/photographer Mark Wallis, who as a performance artist in his native England gathered a major following as "I Am Cereal Killer."