CABARET EVENTS FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
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NYC: JOHN MINNOCK RETURNS TO THE METROPOLITAN ROOM
New-breed jazz and blues vocalist ,John Minnock will perform at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, August 22nd at 9:30 pm, with an energetic and entertaining hour of Jazz and Blues. John is joined by his trio: pianist Bill Duffy, bassist Carlos Mena, and drummer Pablo Eluchans. John Minnock gained popularity as a successful singer in Boston, and is now a regular performer at the Metropolitan Room. Combining great musicality and showmanship, John presents a lively evening of Jazz, Blues, Funk and R&B. Rapidly building a large New York following, and with a voice that recalls B.B. King, Billy Eckstein, and George Benson, John often branches out to jazz improvisation and scat singing, with interesting facts and history about the songs. A classically trained musician, John's vocalizing recalls the likes of Billy Eckstein, George Benson and B.B. King. He often branches out into jazz improvisations and scat singing, and adds interesting stories and facts about each the music. His wide repertoire of song renditions spans classic artists like King, Ruth Brown and Bill Withers to contemporaries such as Sara Bareilles, Amy Winehouse and Sam Smith. There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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NYC: ALI CALDWELL PRESENTS: HEART OF BALLADS , A JOURNEY OF LOVE, HEARTBREAK & PASSION
Ali Caldwell presents Heart of Ballads a journey of love, heartbreak & passion at
THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, August 22nd at 11:30 pm. Performing new material from her EP Entitled "Heart of Ballads" along with some of your R&B favorites. Known to many as "Ali", she has been singing since the age of 4, Knew she wanted to be a star growing up. Mother Patricia Oliver and Father Stanley Caldwell (Both Singers) brought her up in church singing. At one point in Ali's life gospel music and church was all she knew ... until she grew up and became a woman. Ali started to broaden her horizons and step out of the tiny box she was stuck in for a while and experienced what they call R&B SOUL MUSIC. Once she discovered this genre, she took it, and ran with it in her own way! Listening to and admiring artists such as India Irie, Beyonce, Brandy, Chaka Khan and Girl Group Destiny's Child, Ali was able to identify REAL SOULFUL MUSIC. The definition of MUSIC became important to her. Landing in many great situations through her music career journey such as Girl Group "Xhale" who has opened up for BoyzIIMen, Ray Goodman & Brown, Patti Labelle and many more. Though the group thing didnt last quite that long. As a solo artist Ali continued her journey determined to make her dreams of becoming a super star come true and recently released her EP entitled "Heart Of Ballads" There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
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Two of NYC cabaret's most popular artists', Marcus Simeone and Maria Ottavia, will pay musical tribute to the iconic songs of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein ll in their brand new duet concert, Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein at
DON'T TELL MAMA (343 West 46th Street, NYC - 212-757-0788) with performances on Saturday, August 22nd; Saturday, October 3rd; Sunday, October 11th; and Sunday, November 15th, all shows at 7:00 pm. The series will also celebrate Don't Tell Mama on its 30th anniversary. Multi-award winner Tracy Stark will be at the piano along with Marco Brehm on bass. Maria Ottavia has been a professional singer since she was a teen. Her credits are long and diverse. Her beautiful soprano has been praised by critics'. Marcus Simeone has risen to become one of today's most versatile singer/ songwriter/ recording artists on the club scene today. His eclectic shows have won many awards and critical praise since he burst on the cabaret scene. There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
$10 cover for members of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE.
MARCUS SIMEONE IS A MEMBER OF CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
NYC: JUDY & LIZA 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 the next performance scheduled for Saturday, July 25th 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.
RICK SKYE IS A MEMBER OF CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
NYC: SAM CIAVARELLA: MOUTH WIDE OPEN
Sam Ciavarella is a waitress who fancies herself a comic, who wishes she was born a drag queen. This crazy gal is offering up a unique evening of her in her most comfortable state: Mouth Wide Open, at
THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATRE (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909) on Saturday, August 22nd at 7:00 pm. There is a $15 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: RITA RUDNER MAKES 54 BELOW DEBUT
Rita Rudner makes her
54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) debut on Thursday through Saturday, August 20th through 22nd at 7:00 pm! A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a fourteen year run and 2,000 plus shows, she has sold one and a half million tickets and become the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas, even being named Las Vegas' Comedian Of The Year nine years in a row. Rita Rudner moved to New York at the age of fifteen to become a dancer on Broadway. She appeared in several shows, including the original productions of Follies and Mack and Mabel. It was while in Annie on Broadway that she began exploring the comedy clubs of Manhattan. In the early '80s, Rudner took a full-time leap from chorus lines to punch lines and was soon a regular guest on both "Late Night With David Letterman" and "The Tonight Show." Rita's first solo HBO special, "Rita Rudner's One Night Stand," was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E. Rudner's two one-hour specials for HBO filled Carnegie Hall in New York three times and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles twice. In 2008, Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS's first ever stand-up comedy special. Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband of twenty six years, Martin Bergman. The couple's first play - Room 776 - ran as part of the 2008 season of the Las Vegas Little Theatre. Their second play, based on Rita's first novel Tickled Pink, premiered at the Laguna Playhouse in April 2012. In 2016 Rita will again perform at the Playhouse in a new play, Act Three by David Ambrose. There is a $55-$110 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
NYC: CHARLIE ROSEN'S BROADWAY BIG BAND
54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) presents Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band on Saturday, August 22nd at 9:30 pm. The show features a full sized jazz orchestra composed of seventeen musicians all playing bandleader Charlie Rosen's (Honeymoon In Vegas, One Man, Two Guvnors) re-imagined arrangements of an eclectic mix of tunes from Broadway's past, present and beyond. Both modern and classic showtunes are on display in this hugely unique and winning evening, sung by the best and brightest of Broadway's young generation of leading performers in the timeless tradition of a big band. Directed by Max Friedman. $25-35 cover charge. $65 premium seating. $25 food and beverage minimum.
NYC: JOE'S PUB PRESENTS ELIACIM
Eliacim, singer, songwriter and musician, will perform at
JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Saturday, August 22nd at 7:30 pm. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. From an early age his passion for music was present. He first started playing various instruments in the church where his father was a minister and grew to be part of the choir there. In 2006 he met producer Dan Warner, which began a friendship that inspired Warner's desire to guide Eliacim, serving as mentor and assuming a leading role in the first steps of his career. In 2010, Eliacim made the decision to move to the city of Miami where he joined acclaimed producers: "Los Gringos" Dan Warner & Lee Levin and collectively they decided to undertake the arduous process of recording what will be his first album which was slated to be released in early 2013, under his own label: Beautiful Cinco Records. Eliacim is creator and composer of all his songs. Songwriting is Eliacim's life and truest talent, which immediately became evident when signed by Sony / ATV Music Publishing in 2011, to commercialize his compositions and additionally expand into writing sessions for various artists (including: Luis Fonsi, Amaury Gutierrez and Samo, of the succesful group: Camila). The debut single from the first winner of "Idol Puerto Rico", which Christian Pagan, titled: "Desde Que Se Fue", was an Eliacim composition which, upon its release last September charted for several consecutive weeks on the charts of the most important source of the industry, Billboard magazine. There is a $15 cover.
NYC: MANHEIM TUTTLINGEN: BIRTHDAY SAX AT JOE'S PUB
Come rock out with Manheim Tuttlingen, his Frauleins, and The Garden State Saxophone Quartet as they crank out his all-time favorite hits from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to The Future, The Goonies, Sixteen Candles, The Neverending Story and more at
JOE'S PUB at THE PUBLIC THEATRE (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - 212-967-7555) on Saturday, August 22nd at 9:30 pm. Hear your favorite 1980s soundtrack songs re-imagined by a German uberfan and a saxophone quartet at his birthday party. Filled with lederhosen-dropping surprises, a comedic character concert created/performed by Tim Girrbach (Squirm and Germ) and directed/choreographed by Wendy Seyb (The Pee Wee Herman Show on Broadway/HBO, Murder For Two, The Toxic Avenger Musical). 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.
Claudoa Koval, trained in classical piano at the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music, and in classical voice at the University of Victoria Music Conservatory, performs at THE GARDENIA (7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA - 323-467-7444) on Friday & Saturday, August 21st & 22nd at 9:00 pm. Ms. Koval took a detour into jazz through performing in Victoria jazz clubs, pursuing jazz vocal studies in Edmonton, and singing with well-known Canadian jazz artists. She moved to Los Angeles to further her jazz studies at the Dick Grove School of Music, writing and conducting a composition for 40-piece orchestra while there. She has entertained throughout the Southland, debuted at The Gardenia last October, and continues to broaden her repertoire by including R & B and even a touch of rock/blues - always with a sense of intimacy and fun. Call for cover/minimum information.
Broadway Concerts Direct presents the next show in their Broadway Comes to Blooming Grove Series, 'Blame It On A Summer Night - Songs of Love & Everything Else", at 
The free, outdoor concert series 
Lynn Henderson's memories as a singer date back to grade school when she wore out a recording of "It's Magic" singing along with Doris Day. Throughout her life, singing has been her passion. From big band vocalist to saloon singer to Handel soloist to cabaret singer, it has all been a joy! The chapters of her life from single New Yorker to wife, mom, equestrienne, businesswoman, divorcee and world traveler all contribute to her selection of songs that speak to me. Life has given Lynn a finer appreciation of great songs and a deeper understanding of what the extraordinary musical poets are telling us. Welcome to Lynn's world!
"The EnGAYgement", featuring David Auxier with Seph Stanek, will be presented at 
Comedy, heart and authenticity are onstage with 4 creative storytellers telling a compelling personal story in the Saturday, September 12th performance of (mostly) TRUE THINGS, at 
Host and Helpusadopt.org board member Robin Westle will present a night of song to benefit Helpusadopt.org at 
Mindi Abair bowled everybody over in 2013 when she played Cadogan Hall with Dave Koz & Peter White, and now she's returning to 
Janice and Nathan (Janice Edwards & Nathan Fry) perform on Fridays from 8:00 to 11:00 pm at