By Sandi Durell   While the keeper of the flame for Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway, Myra Chanin, is traveling in Hawaii, I couldn’t let this auspicious evening of song pass me by without being part of the BIG anniversary celebration at Don’t Tell Mama that earned Ritzel and his...

  By Myra Chanin   June 29, 2018 was very special. It was the date of the penultimate performance of Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway’s Triple-Consecutive Mac-Award-Winning Series before its Third Anniversary Celebration. Tada! Harrumph to them who said it wouldn’t last! Them couldn’t...

    By Myra Chanin   On Monday night, March 27, 2018, Ricky Ritzel stepped up to the microphone at B. B. Kings and gratefully and gracefully accepted the 2018 Manhattan Association of Cabaret Award for Best Recurring Cabaret Series for the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW! Ricky Ritzel’s...

    By Myra Chanin   On or about 8:30 pm on the last Friday (occasionally the last Thursday) of every month (except December) since July of 2015, a beaming companion and I have departed Don’t Tell Mama, the iconic Cabaret Multiplex-cum-restaurant-cum-piano bar on West 46th...

    By Myra Chanin     I have attended almost every single one of the now going on three years’ worth of Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway’s and always depart in varying states of exhilaration and with the same question floating through my brain. Can Ricky ever again equal or...

     by Sandi Durell    Summer in the City can be quite a treat if you’re looking for some good talent in the cabarets and clubs. Talent abounds . . . and whatever the temperature, you’ll be feeling just right listening to many of the best in town.   Here’s a short list of some...

  By Myra Chanin     January’s Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway XV at Don’t Tell Mama was the best one ever. If you’ve flunked Mathematical Latin, I’m talking about the 15th in the series of monthly rollicking; regular-packed non-extravaganzas performed on the last Thursday or Friday of...

    By Myra Chanin   Ricky Ritzel may simply be the equally adorable and energetic spiritual son of Mickey Rooney with even more talent and energy but minus eight wives. Just as Mickey never found a show that wasn’t barn-worthy, Ricky has never found a musical undeserving of...

      by Myra Chanin The latest Ricky Ritzel on Broadway returns to Don’t Tell Mama on November 19th.     If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth? And not an ordinary video but one that replays life’s unexpectedly delicious moments? And who, when...

    By: Myra Chanin   According to his wiseass bio, Ricky Ritzel was last seen on Broadway hailing a cab. Actually Ricky is a formidable Cabaret stalwart who spends most of his time at off and off-off Broadway venues arranging, creating, directing, performing and playing for...