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Freedom Songs: Election Edition – Inspiring
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Freedom Songs is inspiring. Anecdotal and historical set-ups are spare and illuminating, not the least because of the artist’s warmth and passion. Unique arrangements, a
Fade Out, Fade In – Mixed Bag Musical Entertaining Production
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Having had terrific success with Singin’ in the Rain (1952), 12 years later, Betty Comden and Adolf Green moved their movie industry pastiche forward to
The Midas Touch
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
“Midas touch The mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty Midas Touch… Doctor Midas said to me Be sure you take your vitamin G…O…L…D” Bells Are Ringing (Jule
Tanya Holt—A Vocalist with Brio
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Holiday lights had nothing on the rarely seen Tanya Holt on December 10 as she illuminated Urban Stages, helping to close their talent packed Winter
French Lessons en Chansons—Beguiling
Friday, July 29th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
French Lessons, presented by Jean Brassard and Steve Ross, two of the most elegant musical boulevardiers* around, is a show evoking first class trips on
Make Someone Happy—
Take them to Feinstein’s This Week
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Let’s raise the roof /Let’s make a scene/Let’s hope the gods of love/Will shine above/And show the way. (“Raise the Roof” – Andrew Lippa) The
What Makes Me Tick: Marc Kudisch Plays—Marc Kudisch!
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Marc Kudisch will appear in Arlington, Virginia’s Signature Theatre’s Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret on August 1 and 2. Something exceedingly rare happened at Feinstein’s Sunday night.
Cy Coleman—Hits and a Miss
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Cy Coleman had a lengthy, multifaceted, successful career. A child prodigy, he began giving classical piano concerts at age six, went on to found a
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