CABARET EVENTS FOR CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, THE MID-WESTERN & SOUTH WESTERN STATES FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
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CHICAGO: JOAN CURTO SINGS SONDHEIM - EVERYBODY SAYS DON'T!
After Dark Award-winning vocalist Joan Curto brings her new show 'Everybody Says Don't" featuring the songs of Stephen Sondheim to DAVENPORT'S (1383 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL - 773-278-1830) on Saturdays in March. Coinciding with Mr. Sondheim's 85th birthday on March 22nd, this show will celebrate this musical & lyrical genius and his contributions to American musical theater. The show will feature music from many of his shows including: Company, Follies, Anyone Can Whistle, A Little NightMusic, Merrily We Roll Along and more. Curto is one of Chicago's top cabaret performers and will be joined by other well-known Chicago musicians, Beckie Menzie on piano, and Jim Cox on bass. Joan Curto has appeared across the nation appearing in concerts and clubs celebrating the music of the Great American Songbook. Chicago based, she is a familiar face to Chicago audiences. Most recently, Joan opened the 2009 On Stage Series at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago in her new show, Shaking the Blues Away. Joan has garnered a reputation for her thoughtful interpretations of the American Songbook and performs regularly at venues throughout Chicago including The Harris Theater, Davenports, The Drury Lane Theater, Thorne Auditorium and the Claudia Cassidy Theater. She has been seen in numerous Chicago Humanities Festivals and the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Conventions. Nationally, Joan has performed in some of the top cabaret clubs and concert series including New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Gardenia in Los Angeles The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center in Milwaukee, The Overture Center in Madison and the Colony Hotel Palm Beach. There is a $22 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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ST. LOUIS, MO: T. OLIVER REID AT THE GASLIGHT THEATER
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T. Oliver Reid takes us club-hoppping through the swanky clubs and lowdown joints of 1930's Harlem. at THE GASLIGHT THEATER (358 North Boyle St., St. Louis MO - 314-725-4200 - LicketyTix.com) on Friday & Saturday, March 27th & 28th at 8:00 pm as part of The Gaslight Cabaret Festival Spring 2015. T. Oliver Reid takes us club-hoppping through the swanky clubs and lowdown joints of 1930's Harlem. He is joined on stage by Tedd Firth, piano; Dave Troncoso, bass; Randy Holmes, trumpet; and James Jackson, drums. Filled with musical and cultural insights into the sultry demi-monde of Harlem jazz clubs and speakeasies in the 1930's, "Drop Me Off in Harlem" Reid reprises the Bistro Award-winning show in a staging that continues to draw on his multi-faceted skills as an actor-dancer-singer. Reid, a veteran of several Broadway musicals, has emerged as one of New York's most captivating male vocalists. Reid received the 2012 MAC Award for cabaret debut, and the 2013 Bistro Award for Theme Show ("Drop Me Off in Harlem's premiere) while making a string of high-profile appearances at Feinstein's, 54 Below and Dizzy's. His most recent Broadway credit is "After Midnight." He also appeared in the recent NBC television special "Peter Pan Live!" starring Allison Williams. In "Drop Me Off in Harlem," he leads the audience on a guided tour of Harlem's nightspots - from the famous and notorious to the obscure after-hours joints favored by the musicians and their confederates. As he delivers songs by Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, and Andy Razaf (among others), a masterful picture of the time and place is conjured. There is a $30-$35 cover.
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