By Dale King If you’ve never seen the musical Cabaret, you still have time to catch the show at Lake Worth Playhouse before this well-tooled performance about sordid pre-war Berlin closes with a matinee Sunday. And if you’re already seen Cabaret, you are strongly advised — no, make that urged — to return. The Lake Avenue venue wraps up its 2014-2015 season with a production … [Read more...]
Szot’s cabaret show lovely and well-planned, but a little distant
Although the boundary between the opera and musical theater worlds can be ambiguous, few opera singers have crossed over to success in musicals. One who certainly has is Brazilian-born baritone Paulo Szot, 2008 Tony Award winner in the expansive revival of South Pacific. With one crossover under his belt, he has been afforded the opportunity to make a similar mark in the … [Read more...]
Sommers debuts promising new cabaret act at Colony
Most of the featured acts at the Colony Hotel’s Royal Room are fixtures of the New York cabaret scene. While West Palm Beach’s Avery Sommers has made some inroads in that world, she is better-known for her musical theater work, on Broadway and across the country on tour. So it is understandable that her latest act, a one-hour set that opened Friday evening and continues at … [Read more...]