BOOM! Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway – live-streamed from 54 Below, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If there’s only one thing in the world of cabaret that beats being serenaded by one Callaway sister, it’s being serenaded by both Ann and Liz.
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On Broadway with Patrick Honoré – Fall Round-Up
This fall, New York offered musical theatre enthusiasts a diverse line-up, spanning from revivals of cult musicals to Broadway spectacles and intimate cabaret. Patrick Honoré reports on all of these projects plus a pre-Broadway run in Washington, D.C. Bat Boy: The Musical – New York City Center Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ City […]
Music Review: You Fascinate Me So – Phillip Officer Salutes Mabel Mercer / You Fascinate Me So – 54 Below, New York
You Fascinate Me So: Phillip Officer Salutes Mabel Mercer (Center Stage Records). You Fascinate Me So, 54 Below, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
The Wizard and I: Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz – 54 Below, New York
The Wizard and I: Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz – livestream from 54 Below, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The initials S and S factor looms large on the CV of Broadway star and cabaret great Liz Callaway – first it was Stephen Sondheim in her To Steve With Love tribute album […]
Off-Broadway gems from Encores! 54 Below and Birdland
Patrick Honoré reflects on a few Off-Broadway gems from a recent visit to New York… Wonderful Town, New York City City Center Encores! Wonderful Town, as part of Lincoln Center’s venerated Encores! series, continued to affirm its status as a Broadway classic, primarily thanks to Leonard Bernstein’s immortal score, which includes iconic compositions such as […]
New York State of Mind: Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway – 54 Below, New York
New York State of Mind: Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway – streamed from 54 Below, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cabaret doesn’t get better than this.
New York cabaret and Off-Broadway round-up
Cabaret is back, alive and well in New York, as is Off-Broadway, writes Patrick Honoré. Karen Mason: Kander & Ebb and All That Jazz – Birdland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Directed by Barry Kleinbort and expertly accompanied on the piano by her longtime musical director Christopher Denny, with Ritt Henn on bass, Broadway veteran […]
New York concert date for updated John & Jen
Rachel Tucker and Lewis Cornay will reprise their performances in the new, updated version of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald’s John & Jen in New York early next month. Presented by Bray Productions and with Lippa also serving as musical director, the special concert performance at leading cabaret venue 54 Below on 9 February 2023 […]
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway – Feinstein’s/54 Below, New York
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway at Feinstein’s/54 Below, New York (livestream on 26 March). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Many have come to honour Stephen Sondheim since his death and many more will do so until the end of time – there’s a big one coming up in London next month – […]
New York round-up – tributes to Cy Coleman, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin
During a recent visit to New York, Patrick Honoré was entertained by top-notch tributes to three of Broadway’s greatest composers – Cy Coleman, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin. On top of all the new musicals opening this spring, Broadway was alive with the sound of the music from three of its greatest composers. The first of […]
