Matt DeCoteaux, Nadia Gemma and Jerry Bisantz will be performing “Lyrically Speaking,” an authentic New York-style cabaret show at Warp and Weft, 197 Market St., Lowell, on Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Not since Ricardo’s and La Boniche closed has there been cabaret style singing in the Mill City and the trio hopes to bring authentic Manhattan style cabaret to Lowell.
“I like to call it ‘Sophisticated Song Stylings’ in live musical entertainment. Matt has done an amazing job creating backing tracks on many songs, allowing us to do everything from Burt Bacharach to Ray Charles to Fleetwood Mack to Tina Turner, so it won’t be your grandma’s cabaret,” Bisantz promised. “We are putting together an evening of music with lyrics that can truly move a person.’’
“We are ‘glamming it up,” he continued. “Nadia in a lovely gown and Matt and me in tuxes! I was glad to see my tux still fits!”
The Warp and Weft is owned by Bisantz’s neighbor, Christina Nikitopoulos, and is the premier location for live music in Lowell.
It has a great menu, and the staff serves fantastic drinks, so dining and music really mesh there, he said. There is never a cover charge for the live music, and it is usually three to five nights a week.
Christina is proud that W&W will be hosting a Jazz Festival from Oct. 1-4, Bisantz added.
But before that check out “Lyrically Speaking.”
“A talented pianist/ singer, two other veteran singers, and a single stool on stage, this will be an intimate evening of music for a sophisticated audience,” said Bisantz.
IN THE WINGS
HUNTINGTON PRSENTS “MOCKINGBIRD” — The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., Boston, will present Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” directed by Huntington Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Loretta Greco. It runs from Oct. 8-Nov. 8. Lee’s enduring classic is adapted anew as Aaron Sorkin, the brilliant and beautifully idealistic creator of ”The West Wing” and ”A Few Good Men,” returns to writing for the stage.
When upstanding lawyer Atticus Finch seeks justice for a wrongfully accused man, he is tested by the limits of his virtue and the uneasy work of forgiveness in a world ruptured in two. The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel has resonated powerfully for over six decades. What does it mean to revisit this beloved classic today with fresh eyes — to consider how far we’ve come, and how far we still need to go.
Greco creates the first regional production of Sorkin’s soaring adaptation. “I thought I knew ’To Kill a Mockingbird’ — its trenchant moral questions, its searing heartbreak, its fierce insistence on empathy at all costs,” says Greco. “But in the hands of the rigorously idealistic Aaron Sorkin, this muscular adaptation reveals something new and urgent: excavating fresh pleasures and provocations. I can’t wait to share this production with you — it’s a chance to be reunited with a beloved story as if for the first time, with sharper eyes and all the heart — and hope — we can muster.”
“I’m thrilled that the first post-Broadway production is happening on the stage of The Huntington,” said Sorkin. “I hope Boston audiences enjoy this new look at Harper Lee’s classic story.”
Tickets start at $29 and are available online at www.huntington.org, by phone at 617-266-0800 or at the box office.
Nancye Tuttle’s email is [email protected].
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