"Who Knows Where the Time Goes" is the title of a song that Judy Collins sings in her show that opened Tuesday night at the Café Carlyle. It was back in the 1960s when Collins first performed in New York City at Gerty's Folk City. Where does the time go? Ironically, if you close your eyes and listen to Collins sing today, it might seem as if time has stood still. Collins' uniquely bright, crystalline voice sounds much the same as it did in her youth.

It is a long way, however, from that Greenwich Village club where she began, that also spawned the likes of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Phil Ochs, to these swanky Upper East Side confines. But even here Collins continues to be a rebel --[...]