Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages
Cabaret, Musical Theater, Jazz and more.
Cabaret, Musical Theater, Jazz and more.
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.
Mason wove an amusing mock history of divadom from Roman times to the present.
Jennifer Sheehan has got that Cole Porter “certain thing” — special, sensational, smashing.
There were too many great moments in this show to list them all here, so I’ll settle for some that struck me forcefully enough to warrant a hastily scrawled note in the dark.
After an absence of a decade, the award-winning vocalist Tom Andersen made his return to solo performing in New York with My Favorite Sings, a smashingly entertaining show that had long-time fans and new converts alike clamoring for more.