Drama Queen

From June 2009:
Most famous for playing Boy George in Broadway’s “Taboo,” transplanted gay Scotsman Euan Morton is homesick, and in true show biz fashion, he’s doing a cabaret act to deal with it! 2009 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland’s most famous songwriter and poet. To celebrate, Scotland is calling [...]

From April 2009:
Singer Lesley Gore, a through and through New Yorker – born in Brooklyn and raised in Tenafly, New Jersey – was discovered by music legend Quincy Jones and recorded “It’s My Party” when she was just 16 years old. In the years that followed, she helped create the soundtrack of the 1960s with [...]

[Note: This interview from February 2009 marked the first time that Ann Hampton Callaway had candidly discussed her life as a lesbian. It originally ran in the New York Blade]
Ann Hampton Callaway—the multiplatinum-selling pop and jazz singer/songwriter best known for writing and singing the theme from the TV hit “The Nanny” as well as songs [...]

From May 2008:
When asked to describe cabaret personality Mark Nadler, I always return to an image of him performing that’s burned in my memory. At one point during “American Rhapsody” a long-running Gershwin tribute he did with KT Sullivan (herself described by The New Yorker “as vocally, comically and theatrically assured as contemporary cabaret performers [...]

From November 2007:
 “Andrea Marcovicci Sings Rodgers & Hart,” opening on Tuesday, November 13 at Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room, celebrates the music of one of the American Songbook’s most prolific and accomplished songwriting teams. Marcovicci will sing both the duos hits (“Manhattan,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Where or When,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “This Can’t Be [...]

From June 2007:
Mary Wilson, one of the original Supremes, is nothing if not gracious. As I arrive to interview her about “Up Close” her upcoming cabaret show at Feinstein’s, she takes a look at the tuft of hair on my head and says “I like your hair. I think it’s very creative. It reminds me [...]