''An avalanche of words'' is how Mark Waldrop, the host of the Lyrics & Lyricists program ''Mad Dogs and Educated Fleas: Nöel and Cole, a Battle of Wits'' described the program at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday evening. By the end of the two-and-a-half-hour show, the Kaufmann Concert Hall was half-buried in drifts of refined light verse invented...
Who needs a brass section when you've got Sutton Foster? As the nightclub evangelist Reno Sweeney in the zesty new revival of ''Anything Goes,'' which opened on Thursday night at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, Ms. Foster has the voice of a trumpet and a big, gleaming presence that floods the house. When she leads the show-stopping ''Blow, Gabriel,...
Forty-five years after his death, Cole Porter has never truly left town. His songs are a staple of Manhattan's cabaret scene: one performer finished a tribute at the Algonquin last month, while two others just opened shows that prominently feature his work. None are as ambitious as Stevie Holland, a jazz singer who has tried to steer into somewhat...