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Actress and Comedian Livia Scott hosts this monthly variety show, where dead celebrities are brought back to life and stellar guest performances contribute to the experience of Livia’s Castle of Enchantment at the UCB Theater East. I attended Livia’s Castle of Enchantment on Tuesday, April 24, and was pleasantly taken on a whirlwind as Livia [...]

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The Happiest Medium review by guest contributor Katelyn Manfre.   Are you ready to rock? No, seriously, are you? Because  Traveling Musicians, the glam-rock quartet straight out of the barnyard, are ready to help you find your inner animal. This merry band of misfits is comprised of four multi-instrumentalist critters–a cat, a dog, a donkey [...]

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Part historical odyssey, part musical, Musical Pawns centers on the career work of Russian composer David Nowakowsky, a brilliant contemporary of Tchaikovsky and Wagner, whose works have been lost for nearly 100 years. Guarding his unpublished manuscripts for decades were his Grandson and then Great-Grandson, and the play also follows their life as Jews in [...]

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Stabat Mater Fabulosa, Morningside Opera Productions

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson January 31, 2012 Manhattan

The Morningside Opera company offered up a quite singular interpretation of Pergolesi‘s Stabat Mater in their Fabulosa rendition on January 26th at Dixon Place, which proved, at once, a scholarly as well as a quite literal undressing of the original. Composed in 1736 – the year of Pergolesi’s death at the august age of 26 [...]

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Interview: Eden And John’s East River String Band

by Michelle Augello-Page January 3, 2012 Interview

If you haven’t heard Eden and John’s East River String Band yet, then you are in for a treat! Based in the East Village in NYC, Eden Brower and John Heneghan have been entertaining audiences in America, Canada, and Europe for the past several years with their versions of 1920s pre-war blues, jazz, pop, and [...]

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3 Ghosts By Pipe Dream Theatre Productions

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson December 13, 2011 Music

Younger minds may find entertainment and diversion at 3 Ghosts, this stage musical adaptation of Charles Dickens‘ story, A Christmas Carol by Pipe Dream Theatre Productions. Everything about it resonates with an enthusiastic note of, well, glee. The attractive and animated cast strut and stand about stage looking very pleased with themselves, and the energy [...]

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Benefit Concert For Ghar Sita Mutu

by Michelle Augello-Page November 10, 2011 Event

A benefit concert is being held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ghar Sita Mutu – “House with a Heart” – a charity that offers a children’s home, a children’s learning center, a women’s training center, and a family outreach program to those living in extreme poverty in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Ghar Sita Mutu Benefit Concert is [...]

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Champagne Pam Is A Fizzy Delight

by Karen Tortora-Lee November 4, 2011 Event

Vocalist Champagne Pam, the Dog Walking Diva had the audience eating out of her palm last night at Don’t Tell Mama, New York’s legendary cabaret room.  With a song list that ranged from jazz to R&B to original songs, every note was a little drop of love for the clients she so adoringly tends to [...]

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Joe Yoga: Retrospective NYC Tour

by Michelle Augello-Page November 3, 2011 Event

To celebrate a decade of songwriting and playing music, Joe Yoga has put together a Retrospective NYC Tour – five venues, seven days, ten years of songs. Each show in the tour is centered around a different theme, signifying the stops and signposts along his journey over the past ten years. As a singer/songwriter Joe [...]

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Don’t Forget! The Dog Walking Diva At Don’t Tell Mama

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 31, 2011 Event

Champagne Pam is The Dog Walking Diva! Vocalist “Champagne Pam” returns to Don’t Tell Mama’s in her cabaret show  The Dog-Walking Diva. Bubbling with a spectrum of sound from contemporary music to jazz, this show is intended to pop with the cabaret devotee as well as dog lovers everywhere! Donald Rebic, piano, and John Hurley, [...]

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Take A Stroll With The Dog Walking Diva – Champagne Pam Comes To Don’t Tell Mama

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 2, 2011 Event

Champagne Pam is The Dog Walking Diva! Vocalist “Champagne Pam” returns to Don’t Tell Mama’s in her cabaret show  The Dog-Walking Diva. Bubbling with a spectrum of sound from contemporary music to jazz, this show is intended to pop with the cabaret devotee as well as dog lovers everywhere! Donald Rebic, piano, and John Hurley, [...]

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Mike Milazzo — Open Mike

by The Happiest Medium September 15, 2011 Event

interview done by Karen + Stephen Tortora-Lee Mike Milazzo – The Show from Mads Jeppesen on Vimeo. If you’ve ever seen Mike Milazzo play the guitar then you already know what an amazing experience it is to watch him – his fingers fly effortlessly over the strings producing almost unbelievably complex sounds that are not [...]

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Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs Of A Robot Girl (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 20, 2011 Art

Meet Anna.  In Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs of a Robot Girl – an  interesting combination of modern dance, techno music, social commentary, science fiction, multimedia, and a bit of burlesque – Anna  is an android who is made of  ”pure synthetic organic flesh”.  So instead of being made only of metal with a “mind [...]

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Smoke The New Cigarette (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 20, 2011 Art

It’s pretty clever when a theatrical production adopts the stance that what it is about to present you with is nothing more than offensive, odious rubbish. And when it does so persistently, warning you at each interval that things are only going to get worse, more unbearable, it seems cleverer, because you have no one [...]

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Judgement Of Paris: Morningside Opera Is At It Again And I Can’t Wait

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 12, 2011 Event

I like nothing better than being naughty at the Opera.  Neophytes might consider this akin to making out in the last pew of church but, actually, it’s not.  I mean, really.  Generally, no matter which opera you’re attending there’s all this drama unfolding in front of you … all this intense emotion, this deep passion, [...]

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Chasing Amy – What’s Inside Her Never Dies

by Karen Tortora-Lee July 24, 2011 Event

All I can ever be to you, Is a darkness that we knew, And this regret I’ve grown accustom to. – “Tears Dry On Their Own” / Amy Winehouse   There’s always a little bit of “what if” and “why didn’t someone” and “stop demonizing / vilifying / glorifying them now just because they’re dead” [...]

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Women’s History Month GRAND FINALE: Celebrating Women In The Arts – It Ain’t Over Till The Phat Ladies Sing

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 2, 2011 Karen's Interviews

On the last day of March Women’s History Month came to a close but today we have one final curtain call – with two amazing women from the world of opera: Brooke Bryant and Minou Arjomand. Yes, March is officially over.   But, like I said in the title, it’s over when *I* say it’s [...]

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