A Conversation with Amanda McBroom
Amanda McBroom discusses her new CD, Voices.
Amanda McBroom discusses her new CD, Voices.
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.
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.”
George Ball finally got to the party. And he did it in style.