Savor the spotlight and learn the fundamentals of cabaret!
Ideal for Beginners. Students will learn how to choose the best material, about the nuance of song interpretation, and enjoy a collaborative environment where students support and encourage each other’s work. The class culminates in a live performance at cabaret venue, Don’t Tell Mama. Thirteen sessions include a technical rehearsal and the performance.
“Mary brings her considerable musical and vocal talent to this class of assorted amateurs, encouraging us to raise our voices in the songs we all love, making us feel like we’re Broadway stars (or at least in the chorus!)”—Carol Finkel
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Mary Feinsinger, director, is an award-winning composer, arranger, lyricist, music director and vocal coach. As a performer, she had a principal role in the 2023 off-Broadway production of the new musical The Imported Bridegroom. A graduate of The Juilliard School in voice, she was a Teaching Artist at OperaAmerica. As vocalist and keyboardist of the West End Klezmorim, she performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the White House. She was on the piano-accompanying staff at Juilliard. She is a composer/ ...
Mary Feinsinger, director, is an award-winning composer, arranger, lyricist, music director and vocal coach. As a performer, she had a principal role in the 2023 off-Broadway production of the new musical The Imported Bridegroom. A graduate of The Juilliard School in voice, she was a Teaching Artist at OperaAmerica. As vocalist and keyboardist of the West End Klezmorim, she performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the White House. She was on the piano-accompanying staff at Juilliard. She is a composer/lyricist alumna in the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, and has created music for a number of musicals and videos including Understood Betsy, The Tooth Fairy Vs. El Ratón Pérez, The Sisters Plotz, Oh My Dog! and the animated song My Head.
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Michael Kirk Lane is an award-winning cabaret artist, most recently winning Manhattan Association of Cabaret Awards in both 2022 and 2020. He also was the recipient of the 2018 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award for Best Cabaret Show. Stephen Mosher of BroadwayWorld Cabaret has called Lane “one of the most popular performers and people working in cabaret today.” Cabaret Scenes Magazine has deemed Lane’s work “musical comedy heaven.”
Beyond his own experience performing in cabaret, Lane’s experience managing two of the city’s most renowne ...
Beyond his own experience performing in cabaret, Lane’s experience managing two of the city’s most renowned cabaret venues (The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama) offers him a unique vantage point and perspective on the art form.
As a teaching artist for over 20 years, Lane has taught all ages from pre-school to retirement homes. In each class he brings the same philosophy to his teaching, no matter the age of the students. “Art, Theatre, and Music are ways for us to connect with our most authentic self, and to explore the world around us.”
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