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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Please note: cover/minimum information is taken from venue listings - some venues may charge an additional fee for attendees without an advance reservation - reservations are normally cancelled by the venue if holders have not arrived by showtime.
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, September 12th 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.
NYC: DINA MARTINA: FLAT & LACKING AT THE BEACHMAN
Cult sensation Dina Martina returns to New York and
THE WEST BANK CAFE/LAURIE BEECHMAN THEATRE (407 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-695-6909) on Saturday, September 19th at 7:00 pm with her show DINA MARTINA: FLAT & LACKING. Additional dates are Sunday, September 20th, and Thursday through Sunday, September 24th through 27th - all shows at 7:00 pm. After attaining cult status in her native town of Seattle and touring nationally, Martina's official New York debut in 2005 sold out in minutes. Her follow-up shows have left jaded audiences (including Michael Stipe, Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, Matt Stone, John Cameron Mitchell, Margaret Cho, Bruce Vilanch, Joyce Dewitt, and Jeff Stryker - a list as strange has her shows) stunned and clamoring for more. DINA MARTINA: FLAT & LACKING, like all of Martina's surreal shows, is a nearly indescribable night of unique entertainment that assaults the senses like no other show. Once again, Dina offers a delightful blend of unequalled song, unnecessary dance, unattractive costumes, and unbelievable video. Dina has packed venues throughout Seattle as well as in Provincetown, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco and London. Martina has shared the bill with acts such as Modest Mouse, Built To Spill, Justin Bond, Nina Hagen and The Village People. She's the recipient of two GLAAD Media Award nominations for Best Off-Off-Broadway Show, two Footlight Awards from The Seattle Times (1999 & 2004), a 1997 nominee for a Seattle Stranger Fringe Theater Award for Best Solo Show, and a finalist for the 2007 Alpert Award. There is a $25 cover plus a $20 food/drink minimum. To purchase advance tickets call 212-352-3101 or visit
http://www.SpinCycleNYC.com/ .
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: THE PATH NOT TAKEN - LAURENCE LAUFER AT THE DUPLEX
Laurence Laufer gives his very first cabaret performance in a benefit for the Myra Shaw Cancer Research Fund at
THE DUPLEX CABARET THEATRE (61 Christopher Street, NYC - 212-255-5438) on Saturday, September 19th at 4:30 pm. His show 'The Path Not Taken' has been 53 years in the making and features Dan Furman on piano. Geraldine Hughes directs. There is a $15 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: COLE ESCOLA IS THE FIRST GAY PRESIDENT
Comedian, writer, and mega-talent Cole Escola creates and performs a brand-new evening of sketches and characters every month in his live solo show at
THE DUPLEX CABARET THEATRE (61 Christopher Street, NYC - 212-255-5438) on Saturday, September 19th at 7:00 pm. His show has continued to sell out since last November. It's garnered celebrity buzz and media coverage from a full-page feature in TimeOut New York to a tweet from Lena Dunham. Irreverent, unique, and actually funny, Cole's talents have landed him roles on TV shows such as "Nurse Jackie," "Law & Order," "Smash," and his own cult-hit sketch comedy show "Jeffery & Cole Casserole." Cole Escola is the First Gay President will become a part of history. There is a $15 cover plus a 2-drink minimum. Must be over 21.
NYC: PRINCETON ARTS ALUMNI CABARET AT THE DUPLEX
The Princeton Arts Alumni will perform at
THE DUPLEX CABARET THEATRE (61 Christopher Street, NYC - 212-255-5438) on Saturday, September 19th at 9:30 pm. Founded in Fall 2013, the group aims to cultivate a strong network of alumni who are in the arts as creators, managers, patrons, supporters and enthusiasts. They seek to build resources (such as our monthly free, user-generated newsletter) and to gather alumni in educational and community-building events that can support alumni in the arts all over the world. This show on September 19th is the first of what they hope will be many events to present, showcase and facilitate art made by Princeton alumni artists from a range of genres. There is a $10 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: AN EVENING WITH JILLIAN LAURAIN - A TRILOGY"
Opera Singer/ Musical Theatre and Concert Stage artist Jillian Laurain brings her award winning vocal talents back to the
THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, September 19th at7:00 pm in her new show "An Evening With Jillian Laurain - The Rhythms Of My Life." She is joined by Ian Herman on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass and Ed Ornowski on drums. Having won the 2014 Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist for her highly successful tribute show, "My Broadway • 100 Years Of The Great White Way" Jillian sings songs by great composers and lyricists like Leonard Bernstein, John Kander & Fred Ebb, "Yip" Harburg & Harold Arlen, Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields, Duke Ellington and more. Jillian brings not just her voice but her acting abilities to the songs that best fit "the rhythms of her life" There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: EDDIE SARFATY - PLAYING IN TRAFFIC
Eddie Sarfaty, a stand-up comic who has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, The Today Show, The Joy Behar Show, Logo's Wisecrack and is a subject of the documentary, Laughing Matters, performs at
THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440 ) on Saturday, September 19th at 9:30 pm. Sarfaty is the author of Mental: Funny in the Head, a collection of humorous essays. There is a $20 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: NANCY HARMS: "ELLINGTON AT NIGHT"
Jazz vocalist Nancy Harms returns with her show "Ellington At Night" to
THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440) on Saturday, September 19th at 11:30 pm. In this acclaimed show, Nancy lends her luxuriant touch to the interpretation of a number of Ellington anthems and rarities, specially selected by Nancy and arranged for this concert by brilliant pianist-composer (and frequent Harms collaborator) Jeremy Siskind, who accompanies Nancy with his trio. "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good", "Prelude To A Kiss", "Rocks In My Bed", and "Strange Feeling" are just a few of the songs to be presented by Nancy and company on this very special night. In a relatively short time, Nancy Harms has distinguished herself as one of the most uniquely gifted young jazz vocalists on the East Coast. Born and raised in the tiny Midwestern town of Clara City, Minnesota, Nancy had no exposure to jazz as a child, no connections to the music via family or education. Though she was singing for small public gatherings by the age of four, it wasn't until attending Concordia College in Moorhead, MN that Harms discovered jazz. Nancy immersed herself in Minneapolis-St. Paul's local jazz scene, and by early 2007, people in the community were taking notice. In the most positive sense, no one had ever seen or heard anyone quite like Nancy before: She possessed a stateliness that was unmistakable, yet she was totally unpretentious in manner. She sang ballads with a folk-like, delicate, ethereal quality and a marvelous way of digging deep into the layers of lyrical meaning. Initially, her most noteworthy attribute from a jazz perspective was her sense of time: She clearly possessed a natural gift for phrasing and an innate sense of swing. Of no small importance to her growing popularity as well was the fact that she was uniquely beautiful, in both sound and appearance. Nancy's dedication to jazz is complete. She is abundantly gifted, and her interpretations reveal her to be a fine actor as well, as she possesses a natural ability to movingly express the meaning of any song. A gifted jazz specialist and an intuitively brilliant interpretive artist. There is a $22.50 cover plus a 2-drink minimum.
NYC: TONY AWARD NOMINEE WILL SWENSON AT FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW
Tony Award nominee Will Swenson takes the stage at
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW(254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Wednesday through Saturday, September 15th through 19th at 7:00 pm. This is his 54 BELOW solo debut! Will was most recently seen on Broadway as Javert in the Tony-nominated revival of Les Miserables. His additional Broadway credits include Priscilla Queen of the Desert; the 2009 revival ofHair, which earned him a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical; and110 in the Shade. Guests can expect a mesmerizing night full of songs and stories. Swenson will be joined by the following guest stars: September 16th - Audra McDonald (Tony Award Winner for Lady Day, Porgy and Bess and many more!)
September 17th - Ramin Karimloo (Tony nominee for Les Miserables)
September 18th - Nick Adams (Priscilla Queen of the Desert)
September 19th - Caissie Levy (Les Miserables, Hair).
There is a $45-$95 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
NYC: FORMER MOUSEKETEER LINDSEY ALLEY AT FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW
Former Mouseketeer Lindsey Alley takes us on her hilarious, musical quest for the elusive "Happily Ever After" at
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Saturday, September 19th at 9:30 pm. Along the way, she sings some fabulous songs (including those Disney favorites that tug at your heartstrings) and spills some unforgettable stories (what Justin and Britney are really like!). Brace yourself, as Lindsey puts her Disney image on the shelf and lets it all hang out ... prompting her mother's unsolicited stock apology, "I tried. I tried and I failed!" Lindsey Alley is a crowd favorite. Having played all over the country, as well as internationally, she has appeared everywhere from The Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City, The Blue Moon in Rehoboth Beach, The Mad Cow Theatre in Orlando to the world-famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles. There is a $25-$65 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
NYC: FEINSTEIN'S/54 CONCERT LAB CONCERT LAB RETURNS
FEINSTEIN'S/54 CONCERT LAB, the concert series where artists hand picked by Feinstein's/54 Below develop new solo concerts bit by bit and draft by draft, culminating in a 20-25 minute piece performed in a showcase for Feinstein's/54 Below staff and other industry panelists, returns to
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW (254 West 54th Street, NYC - 646-476-3551) on Saturday, September 19th at 11:30 pm as part of the club's Late Night Series. Concert Lab artists will perform short sets and receive feedback from guest panelists! Featuring: Meagan Michelson, Adam Blotner and Samantha Joy Pearlman. Feinstein's/54 Below Concert Lab is expertly hosted by Amy Jo Jackson. There is a $10-$30 cover plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
PLEASE NOTE: Additiional Cabaret Events may be scheduled for this date in this area for which we did not receive complete / appropriate press releases. Check venue websites.
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.
On Friday, September 18th at 9:00 pm, Andrea Marcovicci polishes "Let's Get Lost", a show which she debuted at THE GARDENIA (7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA - 323-467-7444) last summer, for its New York City debut at Feinstein's/54 Below this Fall. "Let's Get Lost" acknowledges her favorite subjects: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and ... torch songs! In addition, she salutes the extraordinary arrangements of longtime musical partner, Shelly Markham, and presents several "never-before sung-in-public" numbers, including a current chart-topper, a comic Broadway turn, and a 1930's Astaire gem. If you missed this show's debut last year, now's your chance to "catch up." If you happened to catch it last year, come back to admire the polish! Call for cover/minimum information.
Chicago singer/ actor Anita Kallen follows up on her crowd-pleasing solo show "That's So Cliche (But Music to My Ears!)" at 
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!
LYNN HENDERSON IS A MEMBER OF CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Host and Helpusadopt.org board member Robin Westle will present a night of song to benefit Helpusadopt.org at 
Susan Hodgdon celebrates the release of her live CD From Her Garland Show, "I Could Go On Singing" on Thursday, September 24th at 7:30 pm and Saturday, November 7th at 4:00 pm at 
Sacred Stages LLC presents Sandra Bargman in her show "The Edge of Everyday" at 
MAC, Nightlife and Bistro Award winner, Gretchen Reinhagen, will present REINHAGEN REDUX, a three performance reprise of her cabaret shows presented in 2014-15, at 
Spotlight On Productions is proud to bring Teresa Fischer aka "Lady T" and her lively comedy musical hour COMEDY ROULETTE back to 
Due to phenomenal demand, Steven Brinberg returns to 
Cabaret Cares, the Award Winning benefit series that benefits Help Is On The Way Today, celebrates the 40th Birthday of cabaret producer Joseph Macchia at 
The Dana Lorge's Variety Show returns to