Chita Rivera: Chita’s Back
Fifty-seven years since Chita Rivera starred in West Side Story? Impossible.
Joanna Gleason featuring Well-Strung
Joanna Gleason’s cabaret performance at 54 Below was that rare kind that stays with you, savoring moments, glances, stories, but most of all the extraordinary talent of a great artist singing songs she loves.
Smile: A Broadway Reunion: 54 Below
Marvin Hamlisch had had two huge successes on Broadway before he partnered with Howard Ashman (after the death of the original lyricists Carolyn Leigh) to turn the 1975 film Smile, about a California beauty contest, into a musical.
Georga Osborne: Back
Georga Osborne is a well-known, beloved actress/singer/comedianne who, for some ungodly reason, hasn’t done a solo show in NYC for 10 years.
Randy Graff: Made in Brooklyn…Revisited
Tony Award winner Randy Graff comes across as a big-voiced tough cookie, but, as she proved in Made in Brooklyn…Revisited, her tribute to Brooklyn-born artists, there are soft, sexy emotions under the surface, rearing to get out.
Broadway on 22nd, Metropolitan Room
The latest chapter in the Metropolitan Room’s wonderful series Broadway on 22nd was a multi-faceted look at Broadway (and some from Off-Broadway) music, accompanied by the indomitably talented Tracy Stark.
54 Sings Big River, 54 Below
Warmth and camaraderie filled every square inch of 54 Below, turning the city’s leading nightclub into the Church of Big River for one emotional evening.
54 Sings The Wiz
In the burgeoning list of the 54 Sings... series, The Wiz—40 years old!—might just be the most exciting of the bunch with its lineup of sensational singers, great arrangements and an exuberantly demonstrative audience
Carner & Gregor’s Barely Legal Show-Tune Extravaganza
carner&gregor212Songwriters Sam Carner and Derek Gregor have a feel for contemporary life in New York City—in their lingo, “the Island.”