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Orchestrated! Marieann Meringolo
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
“For the most part, you’ve only seen the beginning stages of any show I’ve ever done,” begins Marieann Meringolo sketching how a performance comes together.
Carole J. Bufford – Body & Soul
Saturday, January 19th, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Carole J. Bufford has her audience even before “hello.” High beams on, launching into a boogie-woogie “Your Kisses Kill Me:” Come and kill me/What a
Woman Around Town: Carole J. Bufford – Happiest On Stage
Monday, January 7th, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town
In Lincolnton, the one-stoplight Georgia town where everyone knew everyone else, Carole J. Bufford was the four year-old who spontaneously stood on a church pew
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
Cabaret Honors Its Own
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
In a year when the cabaret community has taken some major hits (the passing of Donald Smith, founder of The Mabel Mercer Foundation and its
Here’s a Find: Bill Zeffiro
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Here’s a find: writer, musical director, accompanist, pianist, and bon vivant Bill Zeffiro holds court every Tuesday night at a casual, neighborhood restaurant in the
Ellen Kaye Sings Ice Wine: Songs for Dark Winter Nights
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Ice Wine is purportedly about getting through the long. “tough” winter to hopeful spring. “Sort of from (Woody Allen’s) Love and Death to (Ingmar Bergman’s)
Woman Around Town: Loni Ackerman—Theater Down to Her Toes
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town
Cabaret Show Next to Abnormal Debuts February 24, 2012 Up a steep and very narrow stairway/To the voice like a metronome…* Loni Ackerman trained with
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