CABARET EVENTS FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
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Spotlight On Productions brings what is bound to become the hit of this cabaret season: Teresa Fischer aka "Lady T"'s "Comedy Roulette!" with performances at
DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC - 212-757-0788) on Saturday, May 30th at 5:00 pm; Monday, June 8th at 7:00 pm; and Monday, June 15th at 7:00 pm. Praised and adored for her comedic turn of a song, Teresa Fischer features some truly funny songs from her repertoire and introducing some new ones. She is finally giving us this DON'T MISS cabaret hour of hilarity and fun! "Comedy Roulette!" features an all comedy song line-up and is broken up into four "Comedy game show" segments where the audience decides what Lady T will sing next! "Game Show Host" Frank Calo presides over the hilarity and will even join in on a song or two. And, yes, there will be puppets! Cabaret veteran Paul Chamlin is the musical director and one-man band for this fun evening that features special musical arrangements by Paul Chamlin and Andrew David Sotomayor. Frank Calo, Artistic Director of Spotlight On Productions, directs and hosts. Lady T has taken us on quite a ride that past few years with her shows "Destinations and Detours", "Hip To Be Happy" and "Scene Of The Crime" (which was on Cabaret Hotline Online's Top Ten list for 2011). Her debut CD LET IT GO was released in the fall of 2012 and Christmas Is• - a collaboration with Candice Corbin and Andrew David Sotomayor - was released in December 2013. Both are available at cdbaby.com or for download at iTunes. There is a $15 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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NYC: JUNE IS JUDY GARLAND MONTH AT DON'T TELL MAMA!
Now in it's 5th Year, "Judy and Liza Together Again", starring internationally acclaimed entertainers Rick Skye and Tommy Femia, named "Best Duo"in 2012 by
MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets), has been Extended Again at
DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC - 212-757-0788) with performances scheduled for Saturdays, May 30th and June 13th, 20th and 27th - all shows at 8:00 pm. Musical Director: Ricky Ritzel (as Mort/Pappy). Teaming up for an evening of "Just POW!", these MAC and Bistro Award winning performers pull out all the stops, singing classic solo's, parodies, duets and just plain whooping and hollering by the greatest mother/daughter team in show biz history. Tommy Femia is a 7 time winner of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) Award for his brilliant portrayal of Judy Garland in "Judy Garland LIVE!", now in it's 20th season at Don't Tell Mama. He has also starred in "Whoop-de-doo", "I Will Come Back" and, most recently, "Norma Does Men". Rick Skye is a multi award winning performer, who has written a string of outrageous comic revues including "The Flip Side of Neil Sedaka" (Bistro Award winning performance), "MaCabaret - a tabloid fable", "The War of the Mama Roses", "It's Madame with an E" (performed with his indefatigable co-star - the one and only Madame), "Barbra and Liza LIVE!" (Leicester Theater and Dublin Theatre Festival) and the International hit - "A Slice O' Minnelli" (MAC Award - Best Impersonation) which has enjoyed successful season's in Covent Garden, at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End and at the Dublin Theatre Festival where he received the Award for "Best Achievement in Performance". "Judy and Liza Together Again" premiered at The Rising Action Theater in Ft. Lauderdale to great acclaim and has since toured the Richmond Triangle Theater, Actors Theater of Minnesota, The Palace Theater in Danbury, Connecticut and Martini's Over Eighth in San Diego. There is a $25 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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NYC: MELISSA GERSTEIN & ELIZABETH EIEL AT THE MET
Melissa Gerstein & Elizabeth Eiel will perform at
THE METROPOLITAN ROOM(34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, May 30th at 4:00 pm. Elizabeth Eiel, an Iowa native, received her Masters in vocal performance at Manhattan School of Music. She has performed extensively through out the New York Metropolitan area with American Singers Opera Project, Opera Company of Brooklyn, Garden State Opera, Chelsea Opera, Bronx Opera & St. Jean Players singing both opera & musical theater. Ms. Eiel made her Town Hall debut to a full house with One World Symphony singing Maria in West Side Story Suite #1. Melissa Gerstein has gained considerable notice in the New York City music scene. Her background includes training and performance at the American Singers' Opera Project in New York City, Academie Internationale d'Ete de Nice in France, University of Miami's Summer in Salzburg and the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium in Italy. Ms Gerstein has also performed with such opera groups as the Dell'arte Opera Ensemble, the Little Opera Company of New York, Amato Opera, Chelsea Opera, and One World Symphony Orchestra. A few of her operatic credits include, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Romeo et Juliette, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Annio in La Clemenza di Tito, Hansel in Hänsel und Gretel, Auntie in Peter Grimes and Bianca in Rape of Lucretia. The past several years, Ms. Gerstein has been specializing in public relations, marketing and artistic administration. She serves as the Public Relations and Marketing Director for the Art Song Preservation Society, a company where she helps produce concerts, masterclasses and special events. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Underworld Productions Opera Company. There is a $22.50 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: JOHN MINNOCK: "I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES"
Vocalist John Minnock presents a high energy, smartly entertaining evening of Jazz and Blues at
THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, May 30th at 7:00 pm. Find out how a guy from the Albany suburbs came to be a new-breed vocalist in the 'jazz/melancholy blues/hard blues' industry and also a regular at the Metropolitan Room. With a voice that recalls B.B. King, Billy Eckstein, and George Benson, John often branches out to jazz improvisation and scat singing, weaving in thought-provoking and often funny facts about the songs. The material includes songs of jazz greats such as Sarah Vaughn and Duke Ellington; blues greats like Billy Holiday and Ruth Brown and also jazz interpretations of modern songs. John Minnock gained popularity as a singer in Boston before moving on to the New York scene. Combining great musicality and showmanship, John presents a lively evening of Jazz, Blues, Funk and R&B. With his trio, accomplished musicians from both Boston and New York, John is as at-ease with the complexities of music as he is working with the band, with the audience and everything involved in putting on a highly entertaining show. John performed weekly at Boston's Encore Lounge for two years in one of the most successful jazz gigs in the Boston area. There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: NEXT TO NORMAL: A BENEFIT CONCERT AT THE BEECHMAN
2nd Stella Productions will present the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical drama NEXT TO NORMAL by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey in concert format, with orchestra, at
THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATRE (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909) on Saturday, May 30th, at 1:00 pm. Musical direction by Sarah Brett England. Scheduled to perform are Diana: Mary Mossberg; Gabe: Eddie Egan; Natalie: Remy Zaken; Dan: Zachary Wobensmith; Henry: Tim Young; Doctor Fine/Dr. Madden: Brian Charles Rooney. A portion of every ticket will go to benefit the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. NEXT TO NORMAL is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. There is a $30 cover plus a $20 food/drink minimum.
NYC: THE VAUDEVILLIANS: BRINGING UP BABY
After selling out an often-extended Off-Broadway run in 2013 (which attracted the likes of Neil Patrick Harris, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Joan Rivers, RuPaul and SNL's Kate McKinnon), a national tour, a 3-month Australian tour (where she was nominated for the Aussie equivalent of a Tony Award), and a summer run in Provincetown, RuPaul's Drag Race favorite Jinkx Monsoon will return to New York with the World Premiere of THE VAUDEVILLIANS: BRINGING UP BABY, a new musical comedy co-starring composer and musician Major Scales. This limited engagement begins performances May 21st at
THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATRE (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909). Performances are on Thursday through Saturday, May 28th through 30th, with a matinee performance on Sunday, May 31st at 1:00 pm. The show returns for more appearances in April. Dr. Dan and Kitty Witless were put on ice in the Twenties, and had their entire music catalogue purloined by today's pop artists. Now the hottest act ever frozen alive is back again, with more swinging hits from their stolen songbook! There's only one problem: Kitty's "in a family way" and no one's quite sure where the kid came from. Can The Vaudevillians still put on a show while bringing up baby? Major Scales is the evil twin of Richard Andriessen, a musician, writer and performer based in Seattle. He has written everything from award-winning New York shows on the east coast to music for amateur adult films on the west. Jinkx Monsoon is the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer, who graduated with a degree in theatrical performance from Cornish College in Seattle. With ten years experience on stage, Hoffer is a seasoned Portland-born entertainer who has captured the attention of his native northwest region. As early as 2006, Hoffer appeared as the lead dancer in the world's largest drag queen chorus line, which made the Guinness Book of World Records. By 2012, he had advanced to roles in Seattle theaters, playing Moritz in "Spring Awakening" (produced by Balagan Theatre), Angel in "Rent" (produced by The 5th Avenue Theatre), and Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (produced by Balagan Theatre and Seattle Theatre Group). In 2014 he was nominated for the Helpmann Award (alongside the likes of Cate Blanchett, Ivo Van Hove, Denis O'Hare and Baz Luhrmann), the Australian equivalent of a Tony, for his performanace in The Vaudevillians. There is a $25-$50 cover plus a $20 food/drink minimum.
NYC: LE SCANDAL CABARET CONTINUES AT THE BEECHMAN
NYC's longest running burlesque variety show, LE SCANDAL CABARET, continues on Saturdays, at 10:30 pm at
THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATRE (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909). In its fourteenth year, Le Scandal features variety acts, circus performers, live music and a bevy of burlesque beauties. New performers every week! Expect sword swallowers, belly dancers, rope trick cowboys, contortionists, torch singing fan dancers and comedic aerobats, all set to the live music of the Le Scandal Orchestra. For tickets, visit Smarttix at
http://www.smarttix.com/ or 212-484-4444. There is a $25-$60 cover plus a $20 food/drink minimum.
NYC: BETTY BUCKLEY: DARK BLUE-EYED BLUES AT JOE'S PUB
After her sold out engagement last fall, Betty Buckley returns to JOE'S PUB at
THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Thursday through Sunday, May 28th through 31st at 7:00 pm - with additional performances on Thursday through Saturday, May 28th through 30th at 9:00 pm. She is joined by a quartet of musicians headed by pianist Christian Jacob, with a new show specifically tailored for Joe's Pub called Dark Blue-Eyed Blues. Her new collection of songs include standards and songs by contemporary writers featuring glamour, torch and comedy. Betty Buckley, who has been called "The Voice of Broadway," is one of theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. She is an actor/ singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. She most recently was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame for 2012. There is a $25-$75 cover.
NYC: BANDA DE LOS MUERTOS AT JOE'S PUB
Jacob Garchik and Oscar Noriega called a dozen of their closest friends formed Banda de los Muertos, featuring arrangements of classic Banda tunes of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, which will perform at
JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Saturday, May 30th at 9:30 pm. They formed the band after hearing the magnificent sound of brass band music from the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Living on the edge of the Mexican part of Sunset Park in Brooklyn, Jacob was sure that he could find some of this music performed live, just like it is in Chicago and LA. After searching the colorful night club posters up and down Fifth Avenue, and although he understood no Spanish, one thing was clear: none of the bands pictured had enough players to form a genuine acoustic Banda: 14! There was no banda in NYC! No there is! There is a $15 cover.
Carol Curtis performs at MARTINI'S ABOVE FOURTH (3940 4th Avenue, San Diego, CA - 619-400-4500) pm Saturdays from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The musical road from Riverside, California to San Diego rambles through Nevada, Oklahoma and almost every state in between, where Carol Curtis traveled as a musician. With a degree in music education from Oklahoma State University, she inspired young minds for several years, only to return to her true calling: cabaret-style singing. Playing the audience as skillfully as she plays piano and guitar, Carol weaves an eclectic mix of torch songs, Broadway and standards into an evening of fun repartee. No cover charge.
After playing to sold-out crowds last October, Storm Large, of Pink Martini fame, returns to 
500 Clown's lusty lunatic Madam Barker sings original songs by John Fornier on a wild romp through Chicago history at 
T. Oliver Reid will perform at 
Host and Helpusadopt.org board member Robin Westle, headliner Karen Akers, best known for Broadway's Nine (Tony nominated for her role as Luisa Contini) and Grand Hotel as well as her presence in the cabaret world; special guest star Raissa Katona Bennett, who appeared as Christine in Phantom of the Opera and is a prolific presence in cabaret; and a group of favorite featured entertainers, Alison Grace Bradbury, Gero Eaton, Leah Jennings and Stephen Mitchell Brown, carefully hand-picked by Robin and Robin's Nest director, Eric Michael Gillett, present a night of song to benefit Helpusadopt.org at 
Following his triumphant sell-out show in February, Classic Brit nominee Robert Meadmore, recognized as one of the finest voices in the West End, returns to 
Dillie Keane takes a short break from her Fascinating Aida gal pals to present her first solo show in 557 years at 
Janice and Nathan (Janice Edwards & Nathan Fry) perform on Fridays from 8:00 to 11:00 pm at 
Raymond The Amish Comic, the only Amish stand-up comedian in the world, will perform at 
Marissa Mulder returns to 
Jazz/ cabaret vocalist Mary Foster Conklin performs on Friday nights at 
Micah Peterson is turning 30 and thought what a better way to celebrate his birthday than with his first New York City cabaret at 
London Cabaret Award Nominees for Best Musical Variety, The Ruby Darlings, present The Ruby Darlings Show at 
Life doesn't always go according to plan. St. Louis native and Broadway actress and singer (The Producers, The Vote Orange), Lisa Rothauser's tells how plans go awry at