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Jessica Molaskey: After Midnight
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 13, 2006
Closed Jul 1, 2006

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Jessica Molaskey, the Broadway musical actress, jazz singing sensation and radio personality, returns with her new show, After Midnight
previewing selections from her upcoming fourth solo CD that features pop classics by Richard Rodgers ("Glad To Be Unhappy"), Harold Arlen ("Happy As The Day Is Long") and Harry Warren ("There Will Never Be Another You"), as well as the Patsy Cline country standard "Walkin' After Midnight." She also includes work by the celebrated current generation of theatre composers, including Michael John LaChiusa ("There Will Be A Miracle," from See What I Wanna See), Adam Guettel ("How Can I Lose You," from Myths & Hymns), Jason Robert Brown ("Stars and the Moon," which she introduced in Songs For A New World) and Ricky Ian Gordon. She is joined by her husband John Pizzarelli on guitar, Larry Fuller on piano and Martin Pizzarelli on bass.

"Complicated, compelling and worth seeing more than once, Ms. Molaskey is a
performer incapable of dishonesty." - The New York Times

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Oak Room--Algonquin Hotel
59 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036

The Oak Room is a piano bar and cabaret room.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

If you're either a jazz buff who cares about lyrics or a cabaretgoer who tends to dismiss jazz because it's usually about the music at the expense of the words, we've got two words for you: Jessica Molaskey. She's a jazz singer who comes out of the Broadway tradition -- and it makes all the difference in the world. In After Midnight, her fabulous new show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, she put a jazz spin on an eclectic variety of songs, but she does so with musical theater acting chops in clear evidence.

You might say that Molaskey is married to jazz, thanks to her being the wife of the great jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli. If he gives her jazz, she gives him a stylish and effective i[...]


Reviewed by Barbara and Scott Siegel on Jun 21, 2006

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