Below you will find all of my Cabaret interviews and classes through 92NY School of Music.
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The 92nd Street Y School of Music held the inaugural 92NY Cabaret Conference in July 2024. Dates for the 2nd conference will be announced soon.
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This week long intensive in the art form of Cabaret will be led by Tony Winner and Broadway legend Faith Prince, and award-winning cabaret performer and historian Michael Kirk Lane. The two will be joined by acclaimed cabaret musical directors Alex Rybeck and Yasuhiko (Yaz) Fukuoka. The week will also feature acclaimed artists and cabaret professionals: John Bronston, Natalie Douglas, Jeff Harnar, Carolyn Montgomery, Sidney Myer, Tracy Stark, Billy Stritch, and Jennifer Ashley Tepper.
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Welcoming performers, directors, and journalists, these conversations will delve into the history and current state of this unique performance style. Each conversation will also include a Q&A session for the participants. This series won the 2022 MAC Award for Virtual Presentation. Past guests have included KT Sullivan, Joe Iconis, Faith Prince, Lillias White, Karen Mason and Chita Rivera.
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Upcoming Guests:
5/6 Leslie Uggams
5/20 Mary Testa
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To register visit:
https://www.92ny.org/class/cabaret-conversations
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$20 per session
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You can also purchase recordings of all previous sessions
Interpreting Sondheim from Stage to Concert, Performance Workshop with Melissa Errico
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Join Tony award nominee Melissa Errico — called by the New York Times, “one of the deepest-hearted yet lightest-touch interpreters,“ of the work of Stephen Sondheim — in a two-day workshop devoted to the art of singing his music.
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Teaching alongside Melissa will be award-winning cabaret performer and historian Michael Kirk Lane, and acclaimed cabaret musical director Yasuhiko (Yaz) Fukuoka. This team will also be joined by librettist, screenplay writer, and Sondheim expert Michael Mitnick in this immersive workshop. Designed to shed light on the practice and techniques of singing Sondheim, it will also touch on the ways that Errico, famously, ‘turns a set list into a story’ — goes about taking songs from their original theatrical context while reimagining them in a cycle that has a narrative arc and meaning all its own.
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10/25-10/26
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Cabaret is a unique style of singing and musical performance that is known for its intimacy and the emphasis it places on the lyric. It is also an art-form that allows performers of all levels to find a stage. Whether the audience is full of friends and family, or a room full of strangers, that audience becomes the performer’s silent scene partner. The performer’s own connection to and interpretation of the lyric, engages with the intimate audience. In this class, students will bring in songs they are familiar with and work to find their unique and honest take on the lyrics and how to communicate their meaning and intention with an audience. The class will culminate with a performance at a NYC Cabaret venue.
Next Sessions Begin:
Saturdays with John Bronston: September 7, 2024
Tuesdays with Yaz Fukuoka: September 3, 2024
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$550 (6 weeks + performance)
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Ideal for Beginners. Students will learn how to choose the best material, about the nuance of song interpretation, and enjoy a collaborative environment where students support and encourage each other’s work. The class culminates in a live performance at cabaret venue, Don’t Tell Mama. Thirteen sessions include a technical rehearsal and the performance.
Next Session Begins:
Wednesday October 16, 2024
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$740 (13 sessions)
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Using video and audio recordings of influential performers throughout the decades, the series will explore the history of the art form and where it is headed into the future. The class is broken down into four sections
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Next Session Begins:
Thursday September 5, 2024
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Week 1: European Beginnings to 1940s New York
Week 2: New York Cabaret 1950s-1960s
Week 3: New York Cabaret 1970s-1980s
Week 4: New York Cabaret 1990-today and looking ahead
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$150
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For information or to register visit:
https://www.92y.org/class/cabaret-history-and-great-performances