NOBODY DOES IT BETTER: Chick Singers of the '70s, a collection of hit songs by Linda Ronstadt, Donna Summer, Anne Murray, Helen Reddy, and other superstars, will be presented in the SideNotes Cabaret of Sunset Playhouse, September 30 through October 3, 2021.
The season will conclude in the summer of 2022 with a 50th Anniversary production of Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak’s musical GODSPELL, directed by the company’s newly appointed Managing and Casting Director Christopher Pazdernik and choreographed by Jeff award-winner Jenna Schoppe (She/Her).
The inaugural Perth International Cabaret Festival may have been winding down, but there was still time for Louise Anton to dazzle Downstairs at the Maj with her show ONE WOMAN, ONE PIANO, ONE VOICE. It was nothing but Louise and her piano, wowing the crowd with her show that seemed perfectly suited to the intimate setting on closing night.
It's been a long time for Meg Flather and for her fans, but everyone left The West Bank sated and smiling after a dinner music set that ranks as full-blown cabaret show.
The stylish crooner of classics from The Great American Songbook, traded in her slingbacks for a mini-skirt and all the groovin' tunes that goes with the look, and you know what? She wears it well.
Thirty-three years later, these are the shows that Stephen Mosher remembers most vividly, from his first time in a Manhattan nightclub to the last night, on March 12th, 20202
The ever charming John McD leads a charmed life, filled with work and good people. Here, he talks with Stephen Mosher about everything from talks with Mom N Dad to Sunday Tea.
Hell in a Handbag Productions once again takes on the classic 1970s disaster film genre with a totally ridiculous twist! Airport 1970SOMETHING is a parody that celebrates the popular '70s Airport disaster film series, edited and dubbed over with new dialogue by Handbag ensemble members and some of Chicago's favorite performers.
Don McLean is a Grammy award honoree, a Songwriters Hall of Fame member, a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and his smash hit a?oeAmerican Piea?? resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) as a top 5 song of the 20th Century.
One can tell when someone is playing music mechanically and simply reading notes on a page or if what you are hearing is something greater than that; as if something divine is coming through the performer's soul. With guitarist Sean Harkness, it most certainly is the later. Although quite an accomplished professional composer, arranger and guitarist, Sean's playing has an additional element; the a?oeIta?? factor that is so hard to describe, but you know it when you see or hear it.
The sunshine state always shines a little brighter when Kristin Chenoweth is in the house. The house being Sarasota's 'purple palace', the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, where Executive Director Mary Benzel and crew are celebrating the theater's 50th year on the Bay. In celebration, they are pulling out all the stops, hosting a banner year of phenomenal talent and entertainment.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. That's a sentiment that has been expressed for many years, sometimes merely through the utterance of the sentence, but usually through the singing of the popular song written by Meredith Wilson in 1951. While many attribute the song to the 1963 Broadway musical Here's Love, it was actually written simply as a Christmas song and singers have been crooning the tune ever since.
DANCE NOW is pleased to present its 2020 Dance-mopolitan Encore Series, featuring ten top-tier artists featured in the 2019 DANCE NOW Festival Encore, selected by the DANCE NOW producers for having most successfully met the 2019 DANCE NOW Festival Challenge: to create a clear and complete artistic statement in five minutes or less for the specifics of the stage at Joe's Pub.