Corinna Sowers-Adler=Mrs. Chips?
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a sentimental 1934 novella by Robert Hilton (with radio, stage and film adaptations) about self effacing career teacher, Mr. Chipping. Nicknamed Mr. Chips by his students, the book’s hero spent his life in the profession and was much beloved. When Corinna Sowers-Adler talks about her theater and voice students, she radiates […]
Lee Day on Life, Liver and the Hirsute of Happiness
On a lovely early autumn Saturday (9/17) The Metropolitan Room hosted its first Pet Cabaret. It may now take a modest bowwow. I have never had much patience for clubbing baby seals; indeed I saw none today at the Met Room. But when it comes to shooting urban animals, photographs that is, I’m your man. […]
Opera to DIE For – “Where Opera and Cabaret Collide”
The last show of Opera New York’s Summer Series features one martyred suicide, one death at the hands of a jealous husband, one angry stabbing, one execution by firing squad, and one florid passing from tuberculosis. For those of you unversed in the genre, this evokes Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini), Cavalleria Rusticana (Pietro Mascagni), Carmen […]
Jeff Harnar sings The 1959 Broadway Songbook – Stellar!
On the 25th Anniversary of this show’s original opening, (the vocalist’s debut at the fabled Oak Room of The Algonquin Hotel), and the 1st Anniversary of Stephen Hanks’ monthly series New York Cabaret’s Greatest Hits, Jeff Harnar and Alex Rybeck thrilled a club (The Metropolitan Room) so full of enthusiastic audience we practically sat on […]
Carol Woods: Ain’t We Got Fun – The Richard Whiting Songbook
Mama Morton’s been sprung. After years of brightening stages in Kander and Ebb’s Chicago, Carol Woods returns to cabaret with Ain’t We Got Fun – The Richard Whiting Songbook. A tribute to his daughter, friend and mentor, Margaret Whiting, the show features Hubert “Tex” Arnold, Margaret’s Musical Director of over 23 years. Woods doesn’t do […]
Stacy Sullivan in A Tour de Force
A Night at the Troubadour: Presenting Elton John and David Ackles brings together vocalist Stacy Sullivan, Director/Arranger Mark Nadler and MD/Pianist Yasuhiko Fukuoka whose collective talent, passion, and creativity are flat out extraordinary. August 25, 1970: a young, British, writer/performer named Elton John was scheduled to make his American debut opening for established writer/performer David […]
Barbara Porteus: Up On the Roof
New York Cabaret’s Greatest Hits series continued with its 10th presentation at New York’s Metropolitan Room Monday night, a revival of Barbara Porteus 2013 show, Up On the Roof. Spanning 40 years of pop, it also includes one country and a couple of jazz-tinted interpretations. Like the original version, Porteus is here accompanied by three […]