Bay Area Cabaret Announces March Shows

Bay Area Cabaret continues its acclaimed series at the Venetian Room at Fairmont San Francisco (950 Mason Street atop Nob Hill) with two special shows in March-one a tribute to cabaret as a distinctive art form, and the other a return engagement for two of the most popular Bay Area Cabaret artists. On March 5 at 5:00 pm, A Cabaret Spectacular will celebrate the art of cabaret performance featuring some of the finest cabaret performers from across the nation. Then on March 26 at 7:30 pm, world-renowned guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli and Broadway soprano Jessica Molaskey, return to the Bay Area Cabaret stage with their brand new hit show from Café Carlyle in New York. Tickets for both shows at www.bayareacabaret.org or by calling (415) 392-4400.

What makes a great cabaret singer? Achieving a connection with the audience that is so direct and intimate it feels as if they are transported from a performance venue to a living room. This sort of intimacy is what makes some performers stand out more than others. Sidney Myer, iconic performer, booking manager of New York's Don't Tell Mama and a frequent host of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention and MAC Awards, hosts this show which features Grammy award-winner Amanda McBroom ("The Rose"), Carole J. Bufford, Nicolas King-Bay Area Teen Idol winner, local singers Sony Holland and Amanda King, and ACT-YC alum Peter Scattini. Tickets are $58. A vocal master class by Michael Orland (American Idol, Hairspray: Live!) and members of the cast (10am-1pm on Saturday 3/4 - http://www.bayareacabaret.org), rounds out the weekend.

Established as one of the prime contemporary interpreters of the Great American Songbook and a "rare entertainer of the old school," according to the Seattle Times, jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli has expanded his songbook repertoire to include the music of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim and others in his shows with his wife, Broadway singer Jessica Molaskey. The pair will debut their most recent Café Carlyle show, Arc of a Love Affair, which proves there is no limit to the couple's imagination or talent. Their shows together probe the complexities of life and love in today's world ("Coffee in a Cardboard Cup"), and marry John's jazz style with Jessica's distinctly cabaret sensibility. Pizzarelli & Molaskey shows remain one of the most popular of Bay Area Cabaret offerings, frequently selling out. Tickets are $55.

Information and tickets for the full line-up for BAC's current season - which includes Christine Andreas (be-Mused, 4/2), and Billy Porter (Broadway and Soul, 5/14) - available at www.bayareacabaret.org.

Bay Area Cabaret is now in its 13th season of presenting world-renowned Broadway, pop and jazz vocalists at San Francisco's most elegant and historic showroom, the Fairmont Venetian Room. This marks Bay Area Cabaret's sixth consecutive season at the legendary "grand dame" Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Bay Area Cabaret (BAC) is a not-for profit organization founded by Marilyn Levinson, a fifth generation San Francisco native. Through its concert series and wide-ranging outreach activities, BAC aims to expand the definition of cabaret and broaden the audience for intimate entertainment, featuring Great American Songbook offerings from George and Ira Gershwin and Stephen Sondheim to Joni Mitchell and Edie Brickell. Past seasons have featured Chita Rivera, Marvin Hamlisch, Laura Benanti, Christine Ebersole, Judy Collins, Sutton Foster, Tommy Tune, Norm Lewis, Lea Salonga, Barbara Cook, Megan Hilty, film star Peter Gallagher, and the Bay Area Teen Idol competition, with judges from American Idol, Wicked and Glee.

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