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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

CABARET EVENTS FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE

CABARET EVENTS FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Here are today's cabaret events as listed on the home page of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE! Every day in every way we're promoting Cabaret! Your event missing? Send press releases to stuhamstra@svhamstra.com to be included - listings are FREE!
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NYC: JEFF MACAULEY - MR. LUCKY: THE SONGS OF HENRY MANCINI

Jeff Macauley is a Backstage Bistro Award winning New York based cabaret singer whose last show was "It Was Me, The Lyrics of Norman Gimbel" now turns to 4-time Oscar and 20-time Grammy winner Henry Mancini in his new show "Mr. Lucky: The Songs of Henry Mancini" at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Wednesdays, April 15th. May 6th & June 17th - all shows at 9:30 pm. Mancini wrote some of the most loved movie songs of the '60s through the '70s. Among his best known compositions were "Moon River," "The Days Of Wine And Roses," "Two For The Road," and "Charade," as well as instrumentals such as "The Pink Panther," "The Baby Elephant Walk" and the "Peter Gunn Theme." Mancini also wrote many classic film scores, including: Touch Of Evil, Hatari, Arabesque, and Victor/Victoria. Jeff's previous show, "It Was Me", has been performed in both Los Angeles and New York and is now a studio recording available on CDBaby and Amazon. In his previous shows, Jeff Macauley explored the rich world of early musical films in "Hollywood Party - Movie Songs 1928-1934," and paid tribute to the most popular female singer of the 40's and a beloved Hollywood icon in "MWAH! The Dinah Shore Show," for which he received Backstage magazine's Bistro Award. Jeff continues his exploration of great american popular song of the last century through legendary film composer Henry Mancini's rich musical legacy under the musical direction of the superbly talented Tex Arnold, who also wrote the arrangements. There is a $22.50 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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NYC: DELPHI HARRINGTON AND WOODY REGAN WITH COWARDLY SWANN

Delphi Harrington and Woody Regan bring Cowardly Swann to THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Wednesday, April 15th at 7:00 pm. Cowardly Swann was first devised as a benefit for THE ACTORS COMPANY THEATRE. It was so successful that they decided to develop it further and pursue commercial venues for it. Woody Regan feels his proudest achievement was writing the score for Sam Shepard's WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN, presented to comemorate the the 100 Anniversary of the Moscow Art Theatre. A regular on the Cabaret Circuit, he has performed at Don't Tell Mama since its inception in 1982, and has been "packing them in" in his monthly show 'GROOVIN' ON A SUNDAY' there for a year. Delphi Harrington, a classically trained actress, was introduced to NY audiences by the renowned impressario, Julius Monk, in BAKER'S DOZEN, one of the fabled Plaza Nine Revues at the Plaza Hotel. She has had considerable success doing Coward. Delphi was nominated for a Drama Guild Award for her portrayal of Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.

NYC: EMGCOLLECTIVE'S CREATING YOUR CABARET: READY OR NOT

2015 MAC Award Winning director, Eric Michael Gillett presents the students of his Creating Your Cabaret class in concert at THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATRE (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909) on Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30 pm. Ready or Not features a fabulous and diverse group of talented singers and up-and-coming cabaret performers strutting their stuff on the stage of the best cabaret venue in Manhattan. There is a $15 cover plus a $20 food/drink minimum.

NYC: BEN RIMALOWER DEBUTS NEW PLAY "BAD WITH MONEY" 

Ben Rimalower returns with his new play "Bad With Money" to THE DUPLEX CABARET THEATRE (61 Christopher Street, NYC - 212-255-5438) running on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm. Ben Rimalower's addiction to spending beyond his means has driven him to extreme lengths all his life. In BAD WITH MONEY he charts his sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing struggle to overcome his problem - or get rich trying. "Bad With Money" is written and performed by Ben Rimalower and directed by Aaron Mark. Rimalower's first solo show, the long-running hit Patti Issues, explored his obsession with Broadway diva Patti LuPone and his relationship with his troubled gay father. Bad with Money delves into even deeper personal territory with the story of his struggle with debt - a journey that takes him through drug addiction, prostitution, fraud and multiple betrayals. There is a $25-$50 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.

NYC: MARK NADLER RETURNS TO 54 BELOW

Mark Nadler, a New York City-based cabaret performer, actor and comedic pianist, returns to 54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Wwednesday, April 15th at 7:00 pm. Mr. Nadler has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra Mark Nadlerand has been a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony, National Arts Centre Symphony in Ottawa and others. At Philadelphia's 14,000 seat Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Mark did a solo two-act evening with the New York Pops, as well as Three Singular Sensations with Marvin Hamlisch and Martin Short. He starred in and co-wrote the off-Broadway Gershwin revue, American Rhapsody, which was nominated for a Drama Desk and two Lucille Lortel Awards and received the Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. Additionally, he received the MAC Award three years in a row for outstanding Musical Comedy Performer and additionally, Mark was given the MAC Award for his performance of five different interacting characters in his one man Opera in Honky-tonk, Red Light, co-written with Dawn Hampton. Mark has created and performs many one-man shows including Running Wild: Songs and Scandals of the Roaring 20's, Crazy 1961, They Can't Take That Away From Me: Music Of George Gershwin, Let's Misbehave: A Cole Porter Soiree, Mark Nadler In A Nutshell, and His Lovely Wife Ira: Ira Gershwin With and Without George for which Mark received the Bay Area Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. For his show, Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians), which he performed in New York's Algonquin Hotel, Firebird Supper Club and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, as well as the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in Australia, Mark was awarded the 2003 Bistro Award for "Continuing To Raise The Standards Of Cabaret Performance." Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians) was reworked as a theatrical one man show called Russian on the Side, which played in Chicago and San Francisco, garnering Mark the Bay Area Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding One-Person show. He also won the Bistro Award for outstanding singer/instrumentalist and for Outstanding Revue for directing, conceiving and music directing Hard Candy: The Songs Of Carol Hall. There is a $35-$65 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.

NYC: NELLIE MCKAY AT 54 BELOW

Led by a trail of incense, Nellie McKay revisits some of the melodies from the 1960s in her new show at 54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Tuesday through Saturday, April 14th through 18th, all shows at 9:30 pm. Celebrating the release of her new album, My Weekly Reader, she will travel to a land of strange and wonderful musical delights with the grooved assistance of her magical band, The Cosmic X-Rays (Alexi David/bass, Cary Park/guitar, Kenneth Salters/drums). Nellie McKay has previously released five full-length albums, including Normal as Blueberry Pie. She has won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum in the Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera and performed onscreen in the films PS I Love You and Downtown Express, as well as writing original music for the Rob Reiner film Rumor Has It and the Emmy-winning documentary, Gasland. McKay wrapped an extended run in the award-winning off-Broadway hit Old Hats, and has written three acclaimed musical biographies, I Want to Live!, the story of Barbara Graham, the third woman executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin; Silent Spring: It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, an exploration of environmental pioneer, Rachel Carson; and her latest, A Girl Names Bill - The Life and Times of Billy Tipton. There is a $55-$110 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.

NYC: ELISA MONTE DANCE AT JOE'S PUB

The Elisa Monte Dance Company will perform at JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Wednesday, April 15th at 7:00 pm. The evening's program will feature works from Elisa Monte and Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director, respectively, of Elisa Monte Dance. The first half of the program will feature excerpts from Monte's fun, enigmatic piece titled, Feu Follet, meaning "crazy fire," referring to the strange marsh lights seen on the Louisiana bayous. The second half of the program features vignettes created by Rea-Fisher and inspired by Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, created specifically for the Joe's Pub stage. Tarantino's sensual and vicious series comes to life in these solos, duets and trios. It is sure to be a compelling, entertaining, and impressive evening of dance, not to be missed. There is a $20 cover. 

NYC: ANN LIV YOUNG: ELEKTRA CABARET

Ann Liv Young: Elektra Cabaret will be presented at JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Wednesdays, April 15th, 22nd & 27th; May 6th, 13th & 20th, all shows at 9:30 pm. Ann Liv Young's creations are essentially a reflection of her life, inspired by her experiences with her dancers, family, collaborators and passerby. The ultra-personal becomes the material she molds for performance. Young's mission is to create work that is honest in its inception, creation and execution. Her work combines text, music and choreography to build scenes that set up ideas, images and relationships and then destroy them. Young's text is explicitly sexual, emotional and blunt, but it is always delivered in a manner that is not. The overt drama of her work is subdued by the realness of this text. Her work exemplifies constant contrast in all its layers. Audiences are provoked and forced to examine their role in the presentation of dance and performance. They must determine their place as supporters, mockers, posers or subjects. Young creates fantastical sets for the comfort of her dancers and in an effort to take the audience to a unique space that is not necessarily the stage. She often works with live animals on stage, forcing natural and odd relationships between these animals and the performers. A key component of Young's process maintains that all rehearsals must take place in her apartment. The stage is then set in the manner of her apartment with its atypical decor. In this way, the work is created with life surrounding it; her dog is walking around, roommates are doing laundry and the phone rings. The sense of focus for the performers and the work is more immediate and real than that created in a studio. Ann Liv Young's work, creation process, titles and intentions are forward and literal resulting in layered, provocative, contrived and thoughtful work that breaks barriers in dance performance. There is a $15 cover. 

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