LOU’S VIEWS: Best in shows for 2011

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By Lou Harry, Indianapolis Business Journal A&E Editor December 24, 2011 The end of the year is here, and that means a look back on outstanding 2011 arts events in Indy. As in the past, I’m not pretending this is an objective best list (are any?). Instead, it’s a celebration of the work that reminded [...]

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2011 Indianapolis Performing Arts Top Ten

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By Tom Alvarez, Indianapolis Performing Arts Examiner December 26, 2011 Covering the performing arts in the Indianapolis area is a broad pursuit, considering the myriad of organizations, large and small, and the many disciplines that constitute this reporter’s beat. This selection of the 10 most special events of this past year is based on the [...]

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REVIEW: Sam Harris gives audience ‘the old razzle dazzle’ in Cabaret show

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By Tom Alvarez, Indianapolis Performing Arts Examiner January 14, 2011 It was going to take more than a bad cold to keep Sam Harris down. Reinforcing that “the show must go on,” and like the trouper he is, Harris brought down the house during Broadway, Ballads & Blues, the 2012 season opener, at the Cabaret [...]

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REVIEW: Christine Pedi at The Cabaret

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By Lisa Gauthier Mitchison, Nuvo December 19, 2011 I can’t think of a more elegant and sophisticated setting for New York-style cabaret than than the Columbia Club. Thursday night’s searing wind made the lights from the Monument Circle tree sway, creating tracers through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Crystal Terrace room. What a picture-perfect backdrop [...]

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REVIEW: Pedi and divas hold court in Cabaret holiday show

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By Tom Alvarez, Indianapolis Performing Arts Examiner December 17, 2011 Mae West, Barbra Streisand, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Hepburn and Liza Minnelli were just a few of the iconic Broadway and Hollywood ladies making an appearance Thursday when singer, comedienne and impressionist extraordinaire Christine Pedi began a three-day engagement of There’s No Bizness Like Snow Bizness [...]

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REVIEW: The Cabaret, Stephanie J. Block

Posted on 02. Nov, 2011 by admin.

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By Elizabeth Musgrave, GottaGo.us October 28, 2011 Stephanie J. Block lit up the poshest venue in Indianapolis Friday evening with her wit, energy and talent. The Cabaret at The Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, aka the third floor’s Crystal Terrace, twinkled with stardust as Block brought her own brand of vivaciousness to attendees of the [...]

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Cabaret Benefit Features Broadway Star

Posted on 02. Nov, 2011 by admin.

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By Tom Alvarez, Indianapolis Performing Arts Examiner October 28, 2011 At A Wicked Cabaret, Friday’s fundraiser for the Cabaret at the Columbia Club, it was announced that Stephanie J. Block, the featured performer, soon would be taking over for Sutton Foster in the lead role in Anything Goes on Broadway. The Cabaret’s managing and artistic [...]

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‘Spielberg of musical theater’ rocks Cabaret

Posted on 20. Oct, 2011 by admin.

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by Tom Alvarez, Indianapolis Performing Arts Examiner October 14 & 15, 2011 “He’s the Spielberg of musical theater,” said managing and artistic director Shannon Forsell when she introduced composer, lyricist and playwright Jason Robert Brown at Friday’s opening night of a two-day run of The Jason Brown Songbook at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club [...]

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The Cabaret at The Columbia Club: Jason Robert Brown

Posted on 20. Oct, 2011 by admin.

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by Lou Harry, Indianapolis Business Journal A&E Editor October 14 & 15, 2011 For me the weekend included a double dose of music by one of my favorite contemporary musical theater composers, Jason Robert Brown (“The Last Five Years,” “Songs for a New World”). Brown headlined at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club and I [...]

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