Life is a Cabaret

In song, life can be a cabaret. Rarely is it a cabaret in reality. But last evening, at the Museum of the City of New York, guests were transported to place where one could truly believe life is a cabaret. During a rousing night of song, headlined by Blithe Spirit's Christine Ebersol, performers Nancy Anderson, Stephen Bogardus, Brigid Brady, Karine Plantadit and Michael Winther lit up the stage with Irma la Douce, Folies Bergères, The French Song and Find Me a Primitive Man, among other classics.

It was a fitting celebration of musical history for a museum that contains a Tony Award-winning collection of theater artifacts, including handwritten manuscripts by Eugene O'Neill, costumes from musicals including A Chorus Line and Fiddler on the Roof and documentation that chronicles the complete history of New York City theater from the latter part of the eighteenth century through the present.

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Better than Ezra

TriBeCa Nightclub Duane Park was sizzling last evening, with tasteful stripteases by Pandora, (pictured left) and Amber Ray and the trumpet sounds and ivory ticklings of a special Saturday-night cabaret act. (The restaurant recently began offering performances on select Saturdays to meet the great demand for weekend shows.) Among the patrons enjoying the night were banker Daniel Ezra and his wife, Lizzie da Trindade-Asher, who gathered more than two dozen of their closest friends on the occasion of Daniel's birthday. Many members of this very international crowd had traveled quite a distance to wish Daniel well, including from as far afield as Sweden. Another couple jetted in from Puerto Rico. After all the songs were sung and cigars had been passed around, the party people decamped to Kiss & Fly, where a little of both took place. The night finally wrapped near sunrise. All in all, a birthday to remember.

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