Steve Ross Sings Love Songs at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Ross delighted a full house with his olde worlde charm and an array of magical melodies from the Golden Age of American musicals.
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Steve Ross – Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames
Steve Ross at the Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The good folk of Walton-on-Thames certainly know who Steve Ross is now – and they loved it.
From List to Lust: Steve Ross Sings Cole Porter – The Pheasantry
From List to Lust: Steve Ross Sings Cole Porter at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Autumn Serenades: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Autumn Serenades – Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Book Review: Wild Card – Martin Milnes
WILD CARD – Martin Milnes (Paperback ZULEIKA: ISBN 9781916197725 – also Audiobooks) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Martin Milnes was born in the wrong era – or at least that’s how it seemed. As a child he wore jazz-shoes to his junior school disco, expecting eight-year-olds to Mambo like the dancers […]
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 […]
Gotta Have Hart and Hammerstein: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Gotta Have Hart and Hammerstein: Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Manhattan cabaret legend Steve Ross may be in his ninth decade but it’s all still there, the charm, the sophistication, the style of a bygone era and, above all, the knowledge. This was yet another […]
Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward – Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward continues at the Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, until 25 August 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Two pillars of New York’s cabaret scene, singer/pianist Steve Ross and singer-actress KT Sullivan, combine to offer some 90 enchanting minutes or so of vintage […]
Travels With My Piano: Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
Travels With My Piano: Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The London cabaret scene is a better place when New York legend Steve Ross is in town and on the first of a three-night stint at famed Chelsea nightspot The Pheasantry he took us on a magical […]
C’mon and Hear – Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
C’mon and Hear – Steve Ross continues at The Pheasantry, London until 23 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The last time the Prince of New York cabaret hit town at the end of January, he had to cancel two of his three Pheasantry shows, that distinctive voice rendered powerless by […]
Book Review – For Better, For Worse – Gordon Deighton
In his reminiscences of London and its culture from 1939, Gordon Deighton offers a personal view of how Britain recovered from the devastation of war, got back on its feet and became an influence for him in the arts, design and publishing, the three main areas in which he carved out a fascinating career which he […]
The Song is You – Steve Ross – The Pheasantry
The Song is You – Steve Ross at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a brave Sunday evening this was after the first two nights of Steve Ross’ Pheasantry residency had to be cancelled after bronchitis rendered him virtually speechless. Although still clearly underpowered, the Prince of New […]
Singer Gary Williams launches free cabaret ‘How To’ videos
Singer and author of Cabaret Secrets, Gary Williams, has launched a series of free training videos for cabaret singers. His book, on ‘how to create your own show, travel the world and get paid to do what you love’, has helped hundreds of new and seasoned cabaret performers fine-tune their shows. Now, in this series of […]
Steve Ross on Broadway – Crazy Coqs
Steve Ross on Broadway continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 7 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Where would Crazy Coqs be without its annual visit from ‘the crown prince of New York cabaret’”, that evergreen entertainer Steve Ross? Nobody today has his knowledge or repertoire of the Great American […]
A tribute to legendary cabaret performer Julie Wilson from another great, Steve Ross
An accomplished musician and vocalist, Steve Ross has been in the cabaret business for 54 years. Here the performer, labelled New York’s Crown Prince of Cabaret by The New York Times, pays tribute to ‘The Queen of Cabaret’, JULIE WILSON, who passed away at the age of 90 on 5 April. Julie Wilson has left us […]
Cheek to Cheek – Steve Ross and Karen Oberlin – Crazy Coqs
Cheek to Cheek: Steve Ross and Karen Oberlin continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 29 November. Gorgeous in gold, the sparkly, sequinned Karen Oberlin, every inch the classy blonde that Ginger Rogers played to smooth, sophisticated Fred Astaire in their ten-movie career as the 1930s dance darlings of Depression-era America, provides the wow factor […]
