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Black Magic

Black Magic

BY DAVID NOH | Can you imagine following in your mother’s footsteps as a singer when that mother happens to be Diana Ross? Well, her daughter, Rhonda, is doing just that and making quite a swell name for herself with a lovely voice that truly swings (there’s a hint of her Mom’s famed huskiness), some serious [...]

June 14, 2013No CommentRead More

Beyond Those Wire Hangers

Beyond Those Wire Hangers

BY DAVID NOH | Appropriate for Mother’s Day, Christina Crawford blew into town with her show, “Surviving Mommie Dearest” at the Snapple Theater, and it was a must for anyone obsessed with her harrowing story, her formidable adoptive superstar mom, Joan Crawford, Hollywood in its so-called Golden Age, or that infamous camp cult favorite movie with [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Baranski’s Timing

Baranski’s Timing

BY DAVID NOH | I  have been enslaved by the comic talent of Christine Baranski ever since seeing her in John Guare’s brilliant classic “The House of Blue Leaves.” As the endearingly coarse, deliriously deluded Bunny Flingus, she had a moment when she fantasized about her loser composer lover, Artie, winning an Oscar, and she said, “And [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Total Recall

Total Recall

BY DAVID NOH | On the ninth floor of a high rise in one of the cushiest areas of Los Angeles, there resides an honest to God show business legend. At 99, Patricia Morison is amazingly alive and vibrant, with pristine recall of her storied past. And what a past: understudying Helen Hayes in “Victoria Regina” [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Montevecchi the Magnificent

Montevecchi the Magnificent

BY DAVID NOH | “I’m 80 years old and loving every moment of it!” cried Liliane Montevecchi to me in her exquisite leopard skin-lined jewel box of a Sutton Place apartment. “You know, sometimes people say, ‘You cannot tell your age and you cannot have another birthday!’ So I always tell them, ‘If you don’t [...]

April 10, 20131 CommentRead More

Gifts from Down Under

Gifts from Down Under

BY DAVID NOH | Helen Reddy was undoubtedly one of the major voices of the 1970s, with her rapid-succession top-selling hits constantly playing on the radio and seeping under our skin. She’s making a long overdue return to New York at B.B. King on March 23 and 24 and took time off from touring in [...]

March 19, 20132 CommentsRead More

Ed Watts, Soaring

Ed Watts, Soaring

BY DAVID NOH | At an early rehearsal for the new Encores! production of “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane… It’s Superman,” composer Charles Strouse had a huge smile on his face listening to his rarely revived score. Afterwards, he enthused to the leading man, “What a wonderful voice! Where have you been?” That guy would be [...]

March 13, 20131 CommentRead More

Tuned and Toned

Tuned and Toned

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | The four hunky gay 20-somethings fall somewhere between a boy band and a symphony orchestra. Their energetic playing, bows jerking and surfing along the strings of their well-worn instruments, belies the classicism of their craft. And their voices flow effortlessly into the music, singing melodiously over the four-part harmony emitting from two [...]

February 27, 2013No CommentRead More

Music is Manhattan’s Central Heating

Music is Manhattan’s Central Heating

BY DAVID NOH | It’s freezing outside, but mighty warm in the various boites around town where I enjoyed an extraordinary bounty of great music in the last weeks. Two Tony winners, John Lloyd Young (“Jersey Boys”) and Jennifer Holliday (“Dreamgirls”) made what amounted to triumphant comebacks, thrilling their audiences with talent that seems to have [...]

February 27, 20136 CommentsRead More

Lulu and Pia

Lulu and Pia

BY DAVID NOH | It’s hard to believe that Lulu, who’s enjoyed a steady career that began several years before making her screen debut at 18 in 1967’s “To Sir With Love — for which she sang the hit title song — should only now be making her American club debut. But that she is, at [...]

February 13, 20132 CommentsRead More

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