Lonette McKee: Can't Help Lovin'
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 5, 2011
Closed Apr 30, 2011
Opened Apr 5, 2011
Closed Apr 30, 2011
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http://www.algonquinhotel.com/oak-room-supper-club
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Tony Award nominee Lonette McKee performs her cabaret show Can't Help Lovin', at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel.
McKee received a Tony nomination for her performance as Julie in the 1983 Broadway revival of Showboat, and played the same role in the 1994 Broadway revival of the musical. Other credits include The First on Broadway and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Off-Broadway, both of which earned her Drama Desk nominations.
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The sharp divide between lustrous singing and awkward stage demeanor is painfully displayed in Lonette McKee's Can't Help Lovin', now at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room. Indeed, the strained evening could just as accurately be dubbed Can't Help Being Lonette.
In this show, which is comprised of pop standards, original compositions, and songs from shows and movies in which she's appeared, The Tony Award-winning star often displays the kind of moving emoting that marked her acclaimed turns in such musicals as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill and Show Boat.
But her undeniable vocal power is constantly undercut by flighty between-song patter that is more distracting than ingratiating, includ[...]