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October 19, 2020 | By Mark Dundas Wood | Add a Comment Repertoire for the Once and Future American Songbook Song #7 in this running series “Whoopee” on stage. Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s “Makin’ Whoopee,” first sung by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!—is a hardy comedic evergreen. While researching it, I was […]

Posted on Mar 7, 2020 in Music Reviews Michael Kirk Lane and Cast (Seussical) By Myra Chanin Monsieur Rick, Don’t Tell Mama, but I’ve been away from youse a long time! Only two months but long enough to realize I missed Ricky Ritzel and his More Than Ready for Prime Time Players high kick their way […]

by Stephen Mosher Feb. 9, 2020 T Tanya Moberly should be exhausted. She isn’t but she should be. With directing jobs all around her and a full time position booking talent into Don’t Tell Mama, as well as a part-time job away from the arts, she should take all her spare time to rest and […]

by Stephen Mosher Feb. 6, 2020 It is apropos that Susanne Mack mentions, in her opening monologue, that she is German, and that one of her songs includes the name of the legendary Marlene Dietrich because Misses Mack and Dietrich share many of the same qualities as performers. It isn’t the German thing, though one […]

Bart Greenberg | January 9, 2020 Rian Keating In This Traveling HeartDon’t Tell Mama, NYC, December 3, 2019Reviewed by Bart Greenberg Rian Keating is a natural storyteller, and he has quite a story to tell. During In This Traveling Heart, he took his audience from California to a lonely Ireland port (from which both the […]

by Rob Lester EDGE Media Network Contributor Tuesday Jan 7, 2020 While the calendar and life experience tell us that the year is unpredictable and new, the old tried-and-true traditions of cabaret and concert events and proven talents make predicting worthy upcoming shows pretty easy. Here, month-by-month, are some coming attractions for music in Manhattan. JANUARY […]

December 12, 2019 | By Mark Dundas Wood There are cabaret singers who have years of experience under their belts, a warm rapport with their audiences, refined acting and singing skills, and a solid understanding of the club-singer’s repertoire. And then there are those with far less experience, whose relationship with listeners is hit or […]

December 2, 2019 | By Robert Windeler In her latest show, From Lady Day to The Boss (at Don’t Tell Mama, smoothly directed by Tanya Moberly), Lisa Viggiano justly and joyously celebrated the nearly five-decade career at Columbia Records of John Henry Hammond—from his supervision of the last recordings of Bessie Smith to his signing […]

by Stephen Mosher Nov. 17, 2019 Rian Keating is a storyteller. There is a storytelling community in New York City, one centered around places like The Moth, places like The Whitaker Center or Kollab New York where people can find Story Slams, or where they can be booked to tell their story. There is no […]