Category Archives: interview

April 19, 2011

Archive Interview: Lily Tomlin In Her Own Words

In 2007 I did an interview with Lily Tomlin that I cut down to fit into print, although true to form with one of my favorite people, most of what she said was gold. Here are uncut quotes from that … Continue reading →

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January 17, 2011

Interview: Christine Ebersole

A gay icon. So supreme, the very finest. Faaaabulous! All of those would be apt descriptions of Christine Ebersole. Or how about “one of those talents that comes along just a handful of times every generation”, which I wrote after … Continue reading →

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January 12, 2011

Interview: Bruce Vilanch

Bruce Vilanch will be playing two nights, January 11 & 12, at Feinstein’s at the Regency in his new one-man show “Writer on the Verge”. We thought we’d call him up to see what the show’s all about. Even as … Continue reading →

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October 2, 2010

Interview: Bryan Batt

Feinstein’s at Loews Regency will continue its Fall 2010 season with the debut of out Broadway favorite Bryan Batt – two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner and star of television’s Mad Men – on October 3 and 4. Bryan takes … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2009

Interview: Euan Morton

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 … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2009

Interview: Lesley Gore

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 … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2009

Interview: Charles Busch

From March 2009: Legends!—a hilarious comedy about two glamorous, Hollywood has-beens and arch-rivals forced to consider working together on a new project to resuscitate their careers—is one of the most notorious theatrical properties ever written, mostly for what happened behind-the-scenes.  … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2009

Interview: Ann Hampton Callaway

[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 … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2009

Interview: Christine Ebersole

From January 2009: The club act that Christine Ebersole did in late 2001 at the much-missed cabaret Arci’s Place is the stuff of cabaret legend. It caused my husband Gacin to exclaim “She’s faaaabulous!” and me to write that she … Continue reading →

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July 9, 2009

Interview: Mark Nadler

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 … Continue reading →

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