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Paula West: Something Good
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 16, 2007
Closed Nov 10, 2007

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

If it's autumn in New York, then Paula West must be at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. The critically acclaimed San Francisco-based jazz vocalist with "a winning combination of Nancy Wilson-like èlan and mountain-spring diction" (The New Yorker), returns to the legendary venue for her annual New York engagement. Backed by the George Mesterhazy Quartet, Ms. West presents Something Good, an eclectic evening of songs by Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Elvis Costello and The Rolling Stones. In addition, she will also offer such standards as "Isn't It Romantic," "Miss Brown To You," "Crazy Rhythm" and "Nature Boy." Time Out magazine calls her annual visits to the Algonquin "the year's most satisfying evening of cabaret."

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?

There may be no more unexpected -- or unexpectedly brilliant number -- to be found this cabaret season than "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which concludes Something Good, Paula West's very fine new show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room. West squeezes more people than you thought possible into a small space at the room's center -- including the superb George Mesterhazy quartet and four talented back-up singers -- and lets loose with an intricate and superb arrangement of the Rolling Stones' classic that simultaneously reveres its roots as a rock n' roll anthem and recrafts the tune as an intimate, cabaret-appropriate story song.

The number is the final stop on West's dizzying eclecti[...]


Reviewed by Brian Scott Lipton on Oct 17, 2007

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