Grab your mink and don your top hat, we’re off to the Coconut Grove or some glamorous boite of yesteryear. The age of the sumptuous supperclub is back in business if the lush song stylings of Elena Bennett are any indication! Elena, where oh where have you been? Like some crazy mixture of Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne and any number of other uber-divas, she knocks each and every song on this stellar collection right out of the ball park!

When you go to see Judy Gold, (the Emmy-winning actress/comedienne recently seen Off-Broadway in 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother), perform her latest show, Jewdy! Jewdy! Jewdy! prepare to laugh your ass off, and make sure you don’t sit in the front row…

No question about it, Ricky Ritzel IS Hysterical Blondness! Well known to New York audiences, with his Andy Warhol-esque do, a cocktail and a tale to tell, the ubiquitous Mr. Ritzel is a throwback to the raconteur of old. He’ll woo you with a song, wow you with tales of old Hollywood and the clubs of long ago, then break out in laughter that takes us all along for the ride.

Watching a singer like Rosemary Loar who brings a bright jazz swing and a subtle, good-humored sexiness to almost everything she sings makes you realize the crucial role good instincts play in the too often self-conscious, overly-confessional and sometimes overwrought world of cabaret singing. Such traits are on display in her new ambitious show, oddly named Sting, Stang, Stung!

Over the years, there have been many shows extolling the careers & musical stylings of well-known singers; Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Carol Channing, to name a few. In Special Kaye: A Tribute to the Incomparable Kaye Ballard, Gretchen Reinhagen gives us a taste of the career & music of one of my personal favorites: Kaye Ballard.

Emily McNamara, an emerging cult goddess of the gay demi-monde, quipped and vamped her way through a riotous set at Vlada on May 26, 2009. Despite her protestations that due to a bronchial condition she was not at the top of her game vocally – there was little, if any, evidence of this – Ms. McNamara delivered witty embellishments on several Madonna and Mariah Carey tunes, spiced up by charmingly vulgar asides.