While it may not yet feel like autumn, the start of the traditional cabaret season is an unmistakable sign of the time. This year, the spirit of a major influence on the genre — the legendary Mabel ...

Read a conversation with Officer about the album and release concert. How were you first exposed to Mabel Mercer? When I moved to New York City in the mid-1980s, I was obsessed with theatre and music.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The three-hour gala fundraising event treated the assembled Mabel Mercer ...

The music of Mabel Mercer, a gifted cabaret singer of the 1930's - 60's, is enjoying a resurgence in popularity with almost all of it now available on CD. The Art of Mabel Mercer presents her earliest ...

It’s a shame that more of us don’t know about Mabel Mercer. As KT Sullivan makes clear in Remembering Mabel, running this week at the Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel, Mercer was wrongly memorialised as ...

To be performed at 54 Below in NYC, the concert will feature singers supported by the foundation’ s founder, Donald Smith, or who knew Mercer personally. She was born in the UK in 1900.

Tonight, October 26, begins the first, full, live and in-person Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention since 2019, before the pandemic. KT Sullivan, artistic director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation and host ...

The music of Mabel Mercer, a gifted cabaret singer of the 1930's - 60's, is enjoying a resurgence in popularity with almost all of it now available on CD. The Art of Mabel Mercer presents her earliest ...

The opening night of the 35th Annual Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention, titled “Put On A Happy Face: A Celebration of Charles Strouse,” built to a completely unexpected climax. Near the end ...

On Mondays a grand and gentle countrywoman drives her station wagon south out of hill-and-meadow farmland. Half an hour or so from her 30-acre estate in Chatham, N.Y., she crosses the outer trenches ...

Bart Howard, the composer of ” Fly Me to the Moon ” and of cabaret songs recorded by Mabel Mercer, Johnny Mathis and many others, died Feb. 21 in Carmel, N.Y. He was 88 and lived in North Salem, N.Y.