CABARET EVENTS FOR N.Y. STATE, NEW ENGLAND & CANADA FOR THIS DATE FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
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N.Y. STATE: ECHOING BACK: THE SONGS OF JOHNNY MERCER
Fort Salem Theater once again provides a launching pad for new musical material as Broadway dance guru Karin Baker (42nd Street, Me and My Girl) introduces to the world-at-large her new concert salute to Broadway and Hollywood songwriter Johnny Mercer, in her show 'Echoing Back: The Songs of Johnny Mercer' at The MAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER(11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200) for one weekend only, Friday & Saturday, June 27th & 28th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, June 29th at 2:00 pm. Born in 1909 in Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer wrote lyrics prodigiously from the 1930's to the 1970's, winning four Original Song Academy Awards and scoring dozens of recognizable hits. His Oscar songs, "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" (1946), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951), "Moon River" (1961), and "The Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) only begin to document Mercer's lasting effect on pop music in the twentieth century. Whether it was his early Hollywood lyric collaborations with Richard Whiting ("Too Marvelous for Words" and "Hooray for Hollywood") or his bi-coastal collaborations with Harold Arlen ("Blues in the Night," "Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby," "Come Rain or Come Shine"), or his own music and lyrics in "Dream," "I Wanna Be Around," and "G.I. Jive," his songs illustrate how an era's music could reflect a smoldering sensuality that bespeaks a romanticism unequaled in our modern era of blatantly obscene lyrics. Karin Baker has taken these songs and more written by Johnny Mercer and woven them into a performance of song and dance with three Broadway performers and Fort Salem's own artistic director, Jay Kerr, featuring Granville CSD music teacher Tim Patrick on bass. Call for cover/minimum information.
PITTSFIELD, MA: FYVUSH FINKEL
Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Julianne Boyd Artistic Director and Tristan Wilson Managing Director, announces June performances at MR. FINN'S CABARET AT THE SYDELLE AND LEE BLATT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (36 Linden Street, Pittsfield, MA - 413-236-8888). The show on Sunday & Monday, June 29th & 30th at 8:00 pm will fearture FYVUSH FINKEL featuring Emmy Award-winning (TVs Picket Fences) stage and screen legend Fyvush Finkel, who will celebrate the great songs and humor of show business. The 91-year old Finkel offers a first-hand account of his incredible career from Second Avenue to television stardom. Tickets are $45.
TORONTO: JAZZ BISTRO'S SALUTE TO WORLD PRIDE: SAMARAS, DAVIDSON & AUCOIN
As a SALUTE TO WORLD PRIDE Toronto's THE JAZZ BISTRO (251 Victoria Street, Toronto, ONT, CA - 416-363-5299) has invited three extremely talented and distinct singers and musicians that rarely share the same stage, Alex Samaras, Charles Davidson and Ghislain Aucoin, on Sunday, June 29th at 7:00 pm. From Legrand to Streisand, from Sondheim to Jerry Herman and Francoise Hardy to Noel Coward, this will be a rare and wonderful celebration of song you will not want to miss. Alex Samaras is quickly becoming one of Canada's leading vocalists in the jazz and new music scene. Alex has blended his love for Jazz and Music Theatre in works that have garnered rave reviews and with stand the passing of time like "The Sondheim Jazz Project. From Bach to Sondheim, Handel to Lloyd Webber, Charles Davidson brings a dynamic stage presence and exciting tenor voice to the stage. He also is also at home singing the Noel Coward Songbook, standards and songs from " Grand Hotel", "La Cage aux Folles" or "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in which he played the lead. Acadian, bilingual "Boy-Wonder" Ghislain Aucoin is equally at ease in the jazz, pop, music theatre and rock worlds. Sought after by established singer-composers like Judith Lander and Nancy White, he also writes his own songs and tours with a number of different bands. He is also a sought-after accompanist in the Musical Theatre and Jazz circles. There is a $20 cover.copyright 2014 - See cabaret listings from all over the world at CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
