20.2.07

Complete March Metropolitan Room Line-Up Announced

Miss Massé returns to the Metropolitan Room for 3 more nights!

Tuesday,April 03,2007(9:30PM)
Tuesday,April 10,2007(9:30PM)
Tuesday,April 17,2007(9:30PM)

"Laurel Massé is an unusually graceful, funny, sensuous, lyrical singer who can swing and phrase like a hot cornet but is also a gently insinuating ballad singer. She used to be with Manhattan Transfer, which stopped being interesting the moment she left." Nat Hentoff, The Progressive.
Visit http://www.metropolitanroom.com/for more information.

19.2.07

9.2.07

THE FIFTH ANNUAL CABARET CONFERENCE AT YALE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCED

Erv Raible, Executive Director/Artistic Director, has announced the Fifth Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University, which will be held July 27th through August 5th. It is an internationally focused, nine-day teaching program that offers an intensive look at the art of cabaret performance technique, and trains professionals for the live entertainment industry. The Great American Songbook will be addressed and promoted in its entirety, from its origins in the late 19th century through the classic pop standards of the 1930s and 40s to today's contemporary cabaret, musical theater, jazz, and pop music.
The Cabaret Conference at Yale University is being developed in conjunction with the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater. Several conference sessions will be held in the facilities of the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater, including the recently opened New Theater. Students have come from across the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
An award-winning faculty, and renowned special guests, will guide thirty-six students in a collaborative process of critical refining and honing. The conference will feature classes and lectures covering cabaret performance technique, acting for singers, lyric interpretation, focus and concentration, act structure, act writing, material research, and comedic development, to musical director and director relations, arranging, orchestration, composer/lyricist relations, and image consultation. Examine the final stages of act presentation through club relations, marketing, press and public relations, to the technical language of light and sound, representation, booking, management and personal networking; with an emphasis on integration into the international live entertainment community.
Public performances will allow the students to observe first-hand the performance techniques of professionals in the industry, while continuing to study those of their peers on a daily performance basis. At the Cabaret Conference Curtain Call the students will perform, demonstrating what they have accomplished in their nine days at the Cabaret Conference at Yale University.
The prestigious 2007 faculty currently includes: Tovah Feldshuh, Jason Graae, Carol Hall, George Hall, Lina Koutrakos, Laurel Masse, Sally Mayes, Amanda McBroom, Sharon McNight, Erv Raible, Fred Voelpel and Julie Wilson; piano faculty includes Tex Arnold, Rick Jensen, Michael Orland, Alex Rybeck and Paul Trueblood.
The conference consultants/lecturers include: Tex Arnold (part singing, harmonies and back-up vocals), Matt Berman (light and sound technician), George Hall (English Music Hall), John Hoglund (reviewer for Back Stage, trade publication), Rick Jensen (record producer on Producing Your Own CD), Michael Kerker (ASCAP, Director of Musical Theater and Cabaret) and Tony Montano (Webmaster/Marketing).
The Cabaret Conference is held on the historic Yale University campus in New Haven, CT, USA, renowned as one of the world's finest educational facilities, and for its spectacular architecture, world-class museums and libraries. Housing for the Cabaret Conference at Yale University is in Yale's new Swing Dormitory, and breakfast, lunch and dinner will be taken in the baronial Tudor Dining Hall of Saybrook College or the Eero Sarrinen designed Morse College dining hall.
Auditions will be held in: New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, London UK, Los Angeles, Minneapolis - St. Paul, New Orleans, Seattle, St. Louis, Toronto and Washington DC. Audition cities subject to change. To schedule an audition or for additional information contact Erv Raible or Wendy Lane Bailey, Executive Assistant at 212-629-2000 or visit the website at http://www.TheCabaretConferenceAtYale.com/ .

5.2.07






Pongo este artículo del 12 de Diciembre ya que la página del Club de Fans no
existía en estas fechas y supongo que os gustará verlo, Laurel está fantástica.

There was no room for choreography when Debbie Gravitte, that gorgeous Tony-winning Broadway diva, stormed the Birdland stage Monday night, what with the extraordinary 17-piece big band backing her up. Debbie and the Russ Kassoff Big Band hosted one of the most thrilling nights of music we've heard, what with the wall of sound, the big, juicy arrangements, and that lusty voice! Debbie even had her old pal Mario Cantone introduce her. If you look to the left, you'll see them backstage, oohing and aahing over our sponsor Charlie Lapson's 'opening night' present! There were some theatrical heavy-hitters in the crowd, including Jerry Mitchell, David Zippell, Mark Sendroff, Barry Brown, Michael Kerker, Scott Coulter, Beau Gravitte, and our simply favorite Steven Brinberg! The following Cast Party was equally starry and so musically varied, what with the many voices of Christine Pedi, Grammy winner Lari White, Tony winning-stud Jarrod Emick, trumpet dude Domenic Farinacci, and original Manhattan Transfer gal Laurel Masse! Even Broadway's sometime-Grinch Michael Riedel looked cheerful and happy with the performances! (Check out more photos on Flickr!!) We do it all again next week, with David Budway and Steve Doyle making up the Cast Party Symphony Orchestra

4.2.07









Nueva sección con las letras de las canciones de los álbumes de Laurel.
New Section with songs of the albums of Laurel.

1.2.07

MANHATTAN TRANSFER SHOW

Pues este es el álbum que con vuestros emails habeis decidido que es el mejor de laurel, cosa que como dicen los cantantes nuestros discos son como hijos nuestros y no nos podemos quedar con uno sólo,que conste que para mí el mejor es Easy Living por el tema "Jackie, Dindi y Cow Cow Boogie".
Estos son algunos comentarios del álbum: a marvelous sense of style, a purity of tone that is evident in everything she does and uses it to a brilliant effect, a technical tour de force, a dazzling performance." John S. Wilson, New York Times, reviewing ALONE TOGETHER.
En este link podemos encontrar la posición de Easy Living en Billboard.com,Alone Together estuvo en la lista de éxitos, pero aquí no se encuentra esa información ,sin embargo en otras webs Easy Living llegó al número 8 y Alone Together al 10