KT Sullivan: Rhyme, Women and Song

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In KT Sullivan's appealing new show,
Rhyme, Women and Song, now at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, one of cabaret's favorite bubbly blondes sings only material for which women wrote either lyrics, composed music or supplied both -- and offers some definitive versions of these songs in the process.


One anointed number is Amanda McBroom's "Dreaming," during which a woman singing confidently about her appeal slowly loses her composure and reveals someone whose life is so conventional she must imagine that she's inhabiting other lives. Later, sitting on the piano, Sullivan offers up Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" and, right before ringsiders' eyes, transforms her usually bright-eyed[...]