There is something quite beguiling about cabaret theater: the intimate setting, the twinkling lights, the occasional sound of a clinking champagne glass, the mood of expectancy. All this means nothing, however, if the actual show does not deliver. And deliver it did Saturday night in the famous Venetian Room at The Fairmont Hotel. “Mistletoe Magic” […]

Just like Broadway songwriter Jerry Herman himself, Jason Graae is impish, pinchably cute, deeply musical, and bursting with both optimism and wry wit. Graae just wrapped his Perfect Hermany show at the Laurie Beechman, where the theater and cabaret performer belted Jerry’s well-known diva tunes (“Before the Parade Passes By,” “I Am What I Am”) as well as the softer songs […]