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Rebecca Luker Sings Jerome Kern – Sumptuous
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Rebecca Luker’s infectiously joyful “I Can’t Help Singing” immediately makes us grateful this is the case. Luker has one of the most sumptuous and texturally
Leave It to Jane – Confection
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
When Leave It to Jane opened in 1917, popular songs of the day included “Me and My Gal” and “Darktown Strutter’s Ball”; Chaplin, and Fairbanks
Karen Oberlin: A Daring Dame at Feinstein’s
Friday, July 27th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
There are things we’ve learned to expect of a Karen Oberlin show: that she be genteel, sincere and a sensitive balladeer. The vocalist’s current program
Noël and Company Presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
The Mouse Trap, which began as a short radio piece in 1947, opened formally at The Theatre Royale in Nottingham in 1952. It’s been running
Woman Around Town: Jennifer Sheehan Has a Calling
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town
The little brown-haired daughter born to Jan and Diane Sheehan almost arrived performing. At 2 ½ she could credibly manage “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” “in
He Did What? Where? Gregory Charles Plays the Carlyle
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Gregory Charles, musician, singer, songwriter, actor, author, radio host, and concert organizer (whew!), is briefly ensconced at the otherwise sophisticated Café Carlyle with a self
The Songs That Mabel Sang—A Birthday Anniversary Concert Celebrating Mabel Mercer
Monday, February 6th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
No one could put a song across like the great Mabel Mercer. The likes of Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne and Peggy Lee attributed her with teaching
Extra! Extra Anita Gillette: After All…
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Baby June* had nothing on this 5’2” (well almost) red headed bundle of dynamite. With fifty years in theater, television, and film under her pave
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