Third evening of the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Cabaret Convention at Rose Hall celebrated the ‘The Golden Age of Cabaret’ hosted by author James Gavin and dedicated to the memory of the late Barbara Carroll.   by Linda Amiel Burns   In 2006 James Gavin wrote the book...

  by Lisa Reitman-Dobi     “Tragedy plus time is comedy.” This is one tenet of the art and craft of comedy. Another: “Timing is everything.” Well, the time is now.   If ever we were in dire need of humor, this is it. When “The Broadway at Birdland Concert Series” slated...

  By Brian Scott Lipton     It’s been over 20 years since My Fair Lady has had a Broadway run, and if any question remained that the show’s brilliant score by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner deserves to be heard nightly, 54 Sings My Fair Lady delivered a resounding answer...

A rare opportunity to hear glorious unamplified voices in a Broadway-sized theater     By Joel Benjamin   For the past few decades only opera goers have experienced the wonder of hearing live voices, unamplified and glorious—“Sound design by God,” quips Scott Siegel who has...

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      by: Sandi Durell     When I told a friend I was going to 54 Below to hear songs that Meryl Streep has sung, they gave me a funny look as if I had lost it, saying “Meryl Streep is an actress, not a singer.” Be enlightened – Mary Louise Streep, born in...

    Review by Marilyn Lester   The overused terms “legendary” and “iconic” truly do belong to Irving Berlin. In a 60-plus-year career he wrote music and lyrics to around 1,500 songs, many of them, as Berlin’s contemporary Jerome Kern noted, becoming “indivisible from the...

            By Myra Chanin   I first met two of the principals in Horseplay when I produced The Joey Reynolds Show on WOR-AM — an all night radio talk show where if you wanted to be on the air you had to be in the studio in the flesh in the wee small...