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ICF: Jason Graae / Baby Jane Dexter / Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano

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ICF: Jason Graae / Baby Jane Dexter / Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano
Saturday, February 20, 2016 9:30 PM
Metropolitan Room, New York, NY
  • 2 Bev Min
 
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  • Ticket Price: $24.00 - $115.00
  • Door Time: 9:00 PM
  • Show Type: Cabaret
  • Restrictions: 2 Bev Min
Featuring: Jason Graae & Opera Star Susan Graham  / Baby Jane Dexter /  Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano

Musical Director: Ian Herman

Cabaret Scenes will present the first International Cabaret Festival, February 17-21 2016, with dozens of performers at clubs across NYC, coming together to celebrate the unique art of cabaret. An opening night Gala will be hosted at Metropolitan Room on Feb. 17 2016 at 7pm, to kick off the Festival as well as celebrate the newly-formed Cabaret Hall of Fame, with a ceremony inducting the following performers:  Barbara Carroll, Andrea Marcovicci, Marilyn Maye and Steve Ross, as well as the late Nancy LaMott, Bobby Short, Jan Wallman and Julie Wilson. Gala Performers include: Anita Gillette as well as by Hall of Fame inductees Barbara Carroll, Andrea Marcovicci and Steve Ross.
 
Cabaret Scenes is offering a “Passport” to the International Cabaret Festival, which gives a $5 discount off the cover of every Festival show. It can be purchased through the Cabaret Scenes website at: cabaretscenes.org/2016/01/13/international-cabaret-festival-february-17-21-2016-new-york-city/. The cost is $10 for one passport; $15 for two. The keepsake Passport is fashioned after a travel passport, and includes the complete Festival schedule, information on all of the participating clubs, and pages for stamps from the clubs one attends. A full schedule of the festival appears below. Without a passport, individual show charges and minimums apply.
 
The Cabaret Hall of Fame is the brainchild of Bernie Furshpan and Joseph Macchia of Metropolitan Room. The goal of the Cabaret Hall of Fame is to preserve the history and contributions of those who have established and fulfilled the promise of live entertainment in a cabaret setting, and have brought joy to millions over the many years of its existence. In the works, as well, are the establishment of a cabaret archive at the Library of Congress and a traveling display of memorabilia of all things cabaret. Adrienne Haan
 
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JASON GRAAE
Opera New York Returns to the Met (Room)!
Broadway's Jason Graae hosts a sextet of classical singers as Cabaret and Opera Collide!   With Special Guest, Metropolitan Opera Star, Susan Graham

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BABY JANE DEXTER
Dexter adopted her stage name because her mother, an actress, was also named Jane Dexter. While still at school Baby Jane was working professionally with a local theatre group and was briefly in the Broadway cast of Hair. After school, she supported herself driving a taxi while seeking stage work. She appeared at New York clubs and also on television, in No Holds Barred, and the theatre, Anything Goes and The Music Man. Like many other artists, Dexter’s career stalled in the late 70s when musical tastes changed. From 1981 she was active as a counsellor in programmes designed to offer an alternative to prison for young offenders. When a close friend, AIDS activist, Vito Russo, persuaded her to start singing again, she performed at AIDS benefit concerts at the Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. Late in 1990, Dexter decided to perform a show at Eighty-Eights in Greenwich Village for Russo but he died just before she was scheduled to open. She continued with the show and early the following year was at the club performing a show I Got Thunder, which she also recorded. This and subsequent shows at Eighty-Eights, Big, Bad, & Blue and The Real Thing - An Intimate Opera, attracted considerable and highly favourable attention.  Dexter possesses a powerful singing voice and a strong and engaging stage presence. Among awards she has won are Backstage magazine’s Bistro Award, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) Female Vocalist Of The Year award, 1994 and 1996, and the MAC Award for Best Major Pop/Rhythm & Blues Performer, winning the latter in 1998, 1999 and again in 2002.

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ERIC COMSTOCK
"Suave, smart, funny and utterly delightful … The aesthetic heir of Bobby Short … Complementing Mr. Comstock’s suppleness as a performer is an ingenious musical wit ...   An ideal balance between swinging precision and good-humored warmth … Excellent taste in material, keen interpretive intelligence and a knack for storytelling … An unusually insightful interpreter of lyrics … romantic eloquence …   Meet the new fun couple on the cabaret block. Mr. Comstock and Ms. Fasano are turning the neighborhood into a hotbed of pleasure."    -- Stephen Holden, NY Times

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BARBARA FASANO
“BUSY BEING FREE" was released to critical acclaim in November 2015, ("My favorite new vocal album" -- Will Friedwald, WSJ) has been hailed as one of the nation’s most stunning and soulful singers. Frank Scheck of The New York Post raves, "Fasano is a gorgeous, soulful singer who has an actor’s intensity in whatever she sings." Whether singing a song by Joni Mitchell or Harold Arlen or Cole Porter, Fasano takes her audience on a spellbinding, emotional musical journey. Her performances and recordings have won her three Backstage Bistro awards, three MAC awards and a New York Nightlife award. Fasano is a regular performer at New York’s most prestigious clubs. Together with her frequent musical partner, Eric Comstock, she was among the last singers to headline at the Algonquin’s legendary Oak Room supper club, with their show “HELLUVA TOWN: A New York Soundtrack”, which enjoyed an acclaimed and sold-out run and has toured the country. The New York Times’ Stephen Holden called it “exhilarating”, singling out Fasano as a “lyrically sensitive interpreter” and comparing her to one of her idols, Lena Horne. “Mr. Comstock and Ms. Fasano are turning the neighborhood into a hotbed of pleasure.”