Provincetown Cabaret Fest 2010!
April 16 – 18
14 Performers, 4 Venues, 1 Magical Place
Tickets On Sale Now!
Whole Note Package: $90.00 - Best value- includes admission to all Crown & Anchor shows and Sunday Brunch - save $19.00.
Half Note Package: $75.00 - includes admission to all Crown & Anchor shows (excluding Sunday Brunch) - save $5.00.
Friday April 16 - 8pm - CAST PARTY
Join Jim Caruso as he hosts the weekend's opening night party. Enjoy a song or two from each of the Cabaret Fest performers along with guest apprearances by Celeste Howe, Lisa Jason, and Barbara Nye.
Crown & Anchor Cabaret Room, Commercial Street
Tickets: $25.00
Saturday April 17 - 5 pm - Dane Vannatter and Krisanthi Pappas Tickets: $25.00 - Crown & Anchor Cabaret Room, Commercial Street
Jazz and cabaret singer Krisanthi Pappas has been compared to Diana Krall and Norah 
Jones by Jazz Times Magazine. Also a two-time Billboard® award winning songwriter, her original songs have been featured in the movies "Green River" and “Tying The Not” as well as in ABC television’s “One Life To Live”, NBC’s “Passions” and HereTV’s “The Lair”. Krisanthi has recorded four CDs and performs full-time at venues and events throughout New England and New York City. She and her band have opened for or shared the stage with Branford Marsalis, Chuck Mangione, The B-52s, The Yellowjackets and many others. To learn more and order cd's visit http://www.krisanthi.com.
Dane Vannatter was awarded the 2006 Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist. He has been acclaimed by reviewers at The New York Post, The Boston Globe and BackStage for a style that "blends facets of cabaret and jazz with intelligence and care." The Boston Globe remarks "Dane Vannatter's distinctive style leaves an imprint on whatever music he sings. His voice has a floating quality that gets in your head and won't leave....his music is a swinging, soaring adventure!" Dane is also the recipient of the 2000 Bistro Award for Outstanding CD for his second recording "Flight." He has been nominated for 4 MAC awards and is a 2007 Nightlife Award finalist. Dane performed in New York at the legendary Sardi's and Metropolitan Room. Dane's 3 CD's & performance schedule are available at his web site www.danevannatter.com.
Saturday April 17 - 5 pm -
Jim Caruso and Billy Stritch
Crown & Anchor Cabaret Room, Commercial Street
Tickets: $25.00
Billy Stritch is one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene. His most recent nightclub act “Billy Stritch sings the Mel Tormé Songbook” earned rave reviews from the New York music critics. In New York, he has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and completed 688 performances as Oscar, the rehearsal pianist, in the 2001 Broadway revival of 42nd Street which starred Christine Ebersole. Billy is also a songwriter and arranger, and his composition “Does He Love You” was recorded by Reba McEntire and Linda Davis. The single reached the number one spot on the Billboard Country chart, winning a Grammy Award and selling over five million copies along the way. Billy
has also written music for theater and for The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. He has arranged for many top performers and is a frequent collaborator with Liza Minnelli, having written the arrangements for Minnelli On Minnelli at the Palace Theater, Liza’s Christmas at Town Hall, and was musical supervisor and pianist for the Tony Award-winning, Liza’s At The Palace. He has three CDs to his credit and his latest “Jazz Live,” recorded at The Jazz Standard in New York, was recently released on Fynsworth Alley Records. He is the winner of the Nashville Music City News Award, a BMI Song of the Year Award, and four awards from the Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets.
Jim Caruso recently made his Broadway debut alongside Liza Minnelli in the smash hit Liza’s At The Palace! The show was honored with a 2009 Tony Award for Best Special Event and the recording is a Grammy nominee. Caruso has won six MAC Awards and two BackStage Magazine Bistro Awards for sold-out shows at Birdland, Arci’s Place, The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, and The Russian Tea Room. He has also performed at the Cinegrill and Gardenia in Los Angeles, The Vic Theater and Davenport’s in Chicago, Libby’s in Atlanta, the Colony Palm Beach Hotel in Florida and the Connaught Room in London. His debut recording, "Caruso Live and In Person" was released on the LML Music label, and within two weeks, went to number one on both the album and singles charts at Outvoice.com. He was featured in a Tribute to Kander & Ebb, backed by the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, and performed a Tribute to Hope & Crosby in an evening hosted by Michael Feinstein at Zankel Hall.
Caruso was the founding member of the nationally acclaimed, award-winning jazz vocal and comedy trio, Wiseguys. The trio performed at President Clinton’s First State Dinner at the White House. They also performed at Carnegie Hall with Rosemary Clooney. For the past seven years, he has hosted a weekly Monday night showbiz bash called "Jim Caruso’s Cast Party," which has brought him a New York Nightlife Award, MAC Award and the Sidney Meyer Award. The weekly “Broadway at Birdland” series he produces has also been honored with a Nightlife Award. His series of weekly podcasts called “here! on Broadway” was honored with a Summit Award. Please visit www.Jim-Caruso.com or www.CastPartyNYC.com for more information.
Sunday April 18 - 11:30am - Sunday Brunch with
Carol O'Shaughnessy
Tickets: $29.00 - Crown & Anchor Cabaret Room, Commercial Street
Join CAROL O’SHAUGHNESSY for this seated brunch performance. Carol has been dubbed “Boston’s First Lady of Cabaret”, and she has earned the city’s Cabaret "Entertainer of the Year” for appearances at New York City’s Town Hall, Jordan Hall, The Regattabar and Scullers. Carol’s one-woman shows “Stuff In The Box … Provincetown The Early Years” and “Ring-a-Ding-Ding … The Music of the Rat Pack” were named “Top 10 Best Cabaret Shows for 2002 and 2003” respectively. She was also nominated by the Independent Reviewers of New England for “Best Female Cabaret Entertainer 2004”. Carol has appeared with Joan Rivers at the North Shore Music Theatre and David Brenner at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Theatre. O’Shaughnessy has three CD’s, “The Way I See It”, “Live At Scullers” and “Ring-A-Ding-Ding….The Music of the Rat Pack” all of which have received rave reviews. Carol is also an accomplished actress and has performed as Matron “Mama” Morton in the Worcester Foothills Theatre productions of Chicago, directed by Susan Streeter. “Carol has an innate ability to deliver a song with the best of them. Carol, you’re just too marvelous for words!” Ron Della Chiesa, WGBH Radio, Boston; WPLM Radio, Plymouth.
