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P+T
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Post subject: KE wins 2010 Nightlife Award - KE & LH perform Jan. 25
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:53 pm
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We heard recently that Kurt has been awarded Outstanding Male Vocalist in a Major Engagement in the 2010 Nightlife Awards. On checking further, we learned that the Nightlife Awards are in their eighth year. They honor the best of cabaret, comedy, and jazz in New York, according to a panel of over two dozen experts and critics.
What's unusual is that the winners perform instead of giving acceptance speeches -- to show why they've won. Kurt and Laurence are performing at the awards ceremony at New York's Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., on January 25, 2010 at 7:00 pm.
Comedy writer and actor Bruce Vilanch is hosting. Among the evening's winners performing are Kurt Elling, Christine Ebersole, Cheyenne Jackson, Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano, Anne Steele, Baby Jane Dexter, Johnny Rodgers, and Gretchen Reinhagen.
Other winners (presumably not performing this year) include Michael Feinstein, Sheila Jordan, Hank Jones, Bad Plus, Louis CK, John Mulaney and Slovin and Allen.
Additional performers include Miranda, John Piazzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, James Barbour, Jim Caruso, Tovah Feldshuh, Howard Fishman, Nellie McKay, Jay Leonhart, Noah Racey & the NY Tap Ensemble, and Martin Vidnovic.
Ticket information is here.
Should be quite the show. Congratulations, Kurt! |
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Post subject: Kurt blew them away with "All the Way"
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:29 pm
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From Stephen Holden's review in the New York Times, January 27, 2010:
| Quote: | Christine Ebersole, described as “the Meryl Streep of cabaret,” was named outstanding cabaret vocalist in a major engagement at the New York Nightlife Awards on Monday evening at Town Hall. Accompanied on piano by John Oddo, the winsome, curly-headed Broadway star, who opens a new show at the Café Carlyle next week, sang a bright, sky’s-the-limit “The Music That Makes Me Dance,” from “Funny Girl.”
Kurt Elling, voted outstanding jazz vocalist in a major engagement sang a moody bebop-flavored “All the Way,” bending notes like a cerebral horn player, without vibrato, accompanied on piano by Laurence Hobgood.
Louis C. K., chosen outstanding comedian in a major engagement, was missing. Slovin and Allen, outstanding comic duo or group, drew guffaws with their subversively funny fictional readings from Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope,” and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “It Takes a Village” (whose preface was twisted into a description of how to become one of the Village People).
Created by the producer Scott Siegel, who has a long association with Town Hall, these awards honoring the previous year’s achievements in cabaret, jazz and comedy have been held there since 1983. Chosen by more than two dozen critics, broadcasters and nightclub representatives (critics for The New York Times do not participate), they differ from the typical show business awards in that there are no acceptance speeches. The winners are invited to perform; most are happy to oblige.
One way to think of the ceremony is as the nightclub equivalent of the New York Film Critics’ Circle Awards. As in that film competition, the winners are announced in advance. This year almost everyone chosen in the cabaret category showed up. Appearances by the winners for jazz and comedy categories were more hit or miss. Previous winners and other guests helped make up for the no-shows.... |
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ptillen
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:04 pm
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Gosh, "All The Way", seems like a perfect showcase for the Elling in Sinatra mode style. I hope he'll record it someday.
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