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If the glorious gods that govern cabaret were to take the coloratura vocal stylings and elegance of Barbara Cook, merge them with the earthiness and humor of Baby Jane Dexter, and wrap the whole package in a unique bundle of sparkle, the end result would without question be Sarah Rice. A Broadway legend perhaps best known for creating the role of Johanna in the original production of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, the revival of her acclaimed act Screen Gems: Songs Of Old Hollywood (which re-launched in early February and will run at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street through the end of April, on selected nights and times), is, quite simply, one of those evenings where one feels Beechman herself is looking down upon the room from the heavens and applauding with reckless abandon.
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For nearly two decades, and whether at its previous location near Lincoln Center or its current home on Broadway and 51st next door to the Winter Garden Theater, Iridium Jazz Club has endured as one of the finest jewels in the crown of Manhattan nightlife. Not merely a mecca for jazz fanatics to catch such soon-to-be legends of their day as Diana Krall, or more recently when the Stanley Jordan Quartet took the stage, proprietress Ellen Hart Sturm (the brains behind Ellen's Stardust Diner) has launched a venue which people will most fondly remember as the room where legendary guitarist Les Paul held court every Monday night for years until his lamented passing.
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A lightly-packed house can go one of two ways for a cabaret artist; at best it can either cause a groundswell of enthusiastic support from the small crowd gathered, or it can become a virtual snoozefest for all. Given the ghastly and snowy weather pounded forth upon New York several days prior to this writing, it was unsurprising that vocalist Wendy Lane Bailey did, in fact, have an audience that was far below capacity, at the Metropolitan Room on February 27th. However, both she and her self-titled show, though not completely without scant shortcomings, proved that the lady is nothing if not a consummate crowd-pleaser.
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The legendary folk-comedy duo of David Buskin and Robin Batteau have, for nearly four decades, captivated all manner of audience in every venue imaginable, up to and including their unforgettable appearance in the late Mary Travers' folk music seminar at the New School For Social Research in 1986, which also featured Odetta, Richie Havens, Judy Collins and, of course, Peter Paul & Mary. It was, therefore, no surprise to the capacity crowd that gathered at the Metropolitan Room on January 22nd to see the team as part of the Jamie deRoy and Friends series, that the two still manage to assume their place on each and every stage, regardless of size, as though they were about to appear before half a million spectators at Woodstock.
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From the mid-1980s until the end of the decade, the comedy songwriting duo of Horowitz & Spector occupied a very special and extremely-visible place in the cabaret sphere. Known as much for their catchy melodies and snappy lyrics as their penchant for flashy garmenting (matching metallic pantsuits and headbands in gold and silver, huge rhinestone brooches proudly announcing “Horowitz & Spector” and the glitter the two would liberally sprinkle into their hair), it was a very short matter of time before they were headlining at such clubs as The Duplex and Panache Encore.
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