Words and Music: Celebrating 50 Years of Friendship & Song – Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman was performed by Birdland, New York. Supremely talented, yet down to earth, an evening spent in the company of McBroom and Brourman is time that returns myriad pleasures
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Exclusive: Listen to ‘Dreamers’ from the Bronco Billy – The Musical Live Cast Recording
Thanks to our friends at Yellow Sound Label, we can share with you an exclusive listen to the track ‘Dreamers’ from the live cast recording of Bronco Billy – The Musical, being released on streaming and digital formats tomorrow (Friday 24 October).
Such Good Friends: Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Such Good Friends: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A choice collection and every one a winner.
UK premiere of Bronco Billy musical – first casting news
Emily Benjamin will star in the UK premiere of Bronco Billy – The Musical at London’s Charing Cross Theatre early next year.
Lady Macbeth Sings The Blues: Amanda McBroom With Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Lady Macbeth Sings The Blues: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Dream Team were back in town – American cabaret great Amanda McBroom and her longtime songwriting partner Michele Brourman – and what a blast it was to see them again at […]
Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries: Maria Kesselman – The Pheasantry
Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries: Maria Kesselman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After 15 long months of cabaret deprivation, there was an undeniable buzz as The Pheasantry reopened with the delightful Maria Kesselman serenading a glad-to-be-back audience that would have been twice as big if Boris had […]
Music review: ’Send in The Clowns’ – Amanda McBroom
Golden Globe winning songwriter (The Rose), singer and actress Amanda McBroom marks the 91st birthday of composer Stephen Sondheim by releasing a single of ‘Send in the Clowns’. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is 23 years since Amanda McBroom played Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Gold […]
Song & Video Review: ‘While There Is Still Time’ – Maude Maggart
‘While There Is Still Time’, sung by Maude Maggart and written by Hillary Rollins and Michele Brourman to honour the health care workers on the frontline of the pandemic. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With maximum respect to all the wonderful corona-inspired fundraisers for the frontline troops in hospitals in the UK and, […]
Book Review: The Pheasantry – The Untold Story
To coincide with The Pheasantry’s tenth anniversary as a seven-day-a-week cabaret venue, Joanna Strand, a performer there herself, has written a lavishly illustrated book tracing the history of the Chelsea nightspot right back to its 1865 roots when Jacko the ring-tailed monkey lived there. Way back in the last century ballet royalty Alicia Markova and […]
Love Notes: Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry, London
Love Notes: Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s not much of pianist-singer-songwriter Michele Brourman but what there is is pure gold. I am no expert on pianists but if there’s anyone who plays a more educated piano, whether jazzy and thrilling or slow and heartbreaking, than this Los […]
Here’s To Life: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Here’s To Life: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Any visit by the elegant Los Angeles singer-songwriters Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman is a cause for celebration and their four-day residency at The Pheasantry was its usual mix of sad songs, topical ones, […]
CD Reviews: Christine Andreas: Piaf No Regrets & Michele Brourman: The Price of Love
Two regular transatlantic visitors to famed Chelsea cabaret room The Pheasantry, evergreen Broadway star Christine Andreas and Los Angeles pianist-singer-songwriter Michele Brourman, have brought out stunning CDs that are well worth a listen. Andreas, who took over from Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in the 1976 Broadway My Fair Lady and later was Tony-nominated for […]
Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Forty years after playing fierce piano on tour in Bob Dylan’s band, Michele Brourman was in the less frenetic surroundings of The Pheasantry singing her own compositions and making wonderful music on the Chelsea cabaret room’s Steinway. At 4ft 11in, this dainty lady […]
Amanda McBroom: My Favourite Things – Pizza Express Holborn
Amanda McBroom: My Favourite Things at Pizza Express Holborn, London. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ It is always good news when singer-songwriter-actress Amanda McBroom is back in London. She had been appearing with fellow songstress Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry in Chelsea and ended her London season with a solo show at Pizza Express Holborn, a fairly […]
Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ There’s good, then very good, then great, then perfect. This was perfection. Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom, with their friend and collaborator Michele Brourman much more than a mere accompanist on the piano, are singer-songwriters from the very top drawer and to have […]
Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ She’s a bit of a secret over here but Michele Brourman’s songs and piano-playing are highly regarded in the States where she accompanies the legendary Amanda McBroom wherever she goes. Once the pianist on a Bob Dylan tour and co-composer […]
Voices – Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Voices: Amanda McBroom at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “You know, I could listen to that voice all night,” said the lady next to me at The Pheasantry after the truly great Californian singer-songwriter Amanda McBroom had enchanted her audience for a spellbinding hour and a half with […]
Divalicious! – Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Divalicious!, performed by Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman, continues at The Pheasantry, London until 13 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ After the blackest day in American history if you were a Democrat or ardent feminist (or plenty of other things too), two of cabaret’s all-time-greats, Ann Hampton Callaway and […]
Interview – Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom on being Divalicious at The Pheasantry
Two of the most inspirational songwriters and performers of the international cabaret scene, ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY and AMANDA McBROOM, will be appearing at The Pheasantry from 9-13 November. They will be accompanied by another wonderful songwriter and performer in her own right, Michele Brourman. Fiona-Jane Weston caught up with Ann and Amanda to discuss their work ahead of […]
Love and Let Love: New Collaborations with Old Friends – Michele Brourman – Crazy Coqs
Love and Let Love: New Collaborations with Old Friends was performed by Michele Brourman at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After two weeks of caressing the ivories while her great pal Amanda McBroom took centrestage, the pocket rocket of American cabaret, “4ft 11 on a good day” […]
Up Close and Personal – Amanda McBroom – Crazy Coqs
Up Close and Personal – Amanda McBroom continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 7 May, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Crazy Coqs host Ruth Leon announces Amanda McBroom as “arguably the greatest cabaret performer in the world”, but nobody was arguing after […]
Michele Brourman – Let’s Order In – Songs about Food, Sex and Other Delicacies – Crazy Coqs
Michele Brourman: Let’s Order In – Songs about Food, Sex and Other Delicacies at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It wasn’t the greatest start to my evening with Michele Brourman to be informed the train had been cancelled because of a death on the line at the next stop. It […]
Noir – Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman – Crazy Coqs
Noir: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 25 April. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There are many times in the year we should thank our lucky stars that the Crazy Coqs, London’s friendliest, most elegant cabaret room, came into our lives, none more so than when the distinctive contralto of the […]
Amanda McBroom & George Ball – Crazy Coqs
Some Enchanted Evening: Amanda McBroom & George Ball at the Crazy Coqs, London, continues until 26 April. Watching Amanda McBroom sitting quietly at the corner of the tiny Crazy Coqs stage and gazing with total adoration at her powerhouse baritone of a husband of 40 years laying into the Brel classic ‘Amsterdam’ – which brought […]
