Podcast appearances and mentions of eric comstock

Each day is Valentine's Day here at Broadway to Main Street, but we are joined by Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano for a glimpse at their new album, Painting the Town, and some gorgeous Broadway romantic duets.

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Hamlet @ The Delacorte Theater, Once Upon a One More Time, The Empire Strips Back @ Orpheum Theater, The Great Gatsby – The Immersive Show, Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano @ Birdland Jazz Club, and 54 Celebrates The Movie Fame “This Week read more The post This Week on Broadway for July 2, 2023: Hamlet @ The Delacorte appeared first on BroadwayRadio.

BARBARA FASANO TRIO July 30, 2022 Gordon Hall, Music Mountain Featuring Eric Comstock, piano/voice With Boots Maleson, Bass “In the Still of the Night” Award-winning pop/jazz vocalist Barbara Fasano returns to Music Mountain with her signature mashup of pop and jazz standards that unite the generations. A Resident Artist at New York's legendary Birdland Jazz Club, she's been praised as “exhilarating … a lyrically sensitive interpreter” by The New York Times. Her latest CD BUSY BEING FREE was called “intelligent, lush and sexy” by Huffington Post. Drawing from eclectic influences – Sinatra and Peggy Lee to singer/songwriters like Joni Mitchell to Cole Porter classics -- Barbara is a spellbinding storyteller in song, reinventing the music and placing it squarely in our time. Her performances have taken her from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to London's Pizza Express, and nightclubs and music festivals across the country. Joining Barbara is her frequent collaborator, acclaimed pianist/singer Eric Comstock. Together these married musical partners make the American Songbook come alive, and audiences feel they've been to a terrific party where the songs and the stories are equally great. Rounding out the trio is eminent bassist Boots Maleson. Join Barbara's trio at Gordon Hall for a soulful, swinging summer soirée!     

BARBARA FASANO TRIO July 30, 2022  Gordon Hall, Music Mountain Featuring Eric Comstock, piano/voiceWith Boots Maleson, Bass “In the Still of the Night” Award-winning pop/jazz vocalist Barbara Fasano returns to Music Mountain with her signature mashup of pop and jazz... Read More ›

We kick off our second decade on the air by visiting with some very special friends from over the last ten years: David Garrison, Ann Harada, Lewis J. Stadlen, Veanne Cox, Malcolm Gets, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano sharing stories and songs.  Here's to us!

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/fNvW2TbLLP0 ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award-winner Chip Deffaa is an internationally-produced playwright and director with a great love of show business. He is also the author of eight acclaimed books dealing with music and popular culture, including Blue Rhythms and Voices of the Jazz Age, both published by the University of Illinois Press. And he has produced more than two dozen albums--cast albums of his shows and songbook albums celebrating great composers of American popular music. ASCAP Award-winning writer/producer Chip Deffaa's new CD, "Irving Berlin: Love Songs and Such"--starring such Broadway and cabaret notables as Betty Buckley, Anita Gillette, Karen Mason, Stephen Bogardus, Jon Peterson, Jeff Harnar, and Steve Ross--is out now. The album--available from Amazon, iTunes, Footlight Records etc. as either a physical CD or a digital download--may be ordered here. An outgrowth of shows about Berlin that Deffaa has presented at the venerable 13th Street Theater, the album offers more than two dozen Berlin songs--a mix of classics and never-before-recorded rarities--sung by such artists as Seth Sikes, Jerry Dixon, Sarah Rice, Natalie Douglas, Giuseppe Bausilio, Ray DeMattis, Analise Scarpaci, Brian Letendre, Eric Comstock, Bobby Belfry, Matthew Nardozzi, Jack Corbin, Molly Ryan, Michael Townsend Wright, Joan Jaffe, Jed Peterson, Alec Deland, Keith Anderson, Luis Villabon, Dea Julien, Katherine Paulsen, Ryan Muska, Mark Dodici, Will Alvarado, and more, with music direction by Richard Danley. Grammy Award-winner Andy Stein is featured on violin. Widely considered the foremost living authority on Berlin's music, Deffaa has written six published shows about Berlin, and 15 of the 32 albums that he's produced are devoted to Berlin's music. 

A lovely day with the finest cabaret duo of our time, live in our virtual studio, selecting souvenirs of great Broadway songs from Hello, Dolly!, Li'l Abner, St. Louis Woman, Golden Boy and more.  

Here's our nightlife show tunes pub crawl with the best practioners of the cabaret arts: Bobby Short, Mabel Mercer, Steve Ross, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano and more.

Cabaret virtuoso Eric Comstock joins us in the studio to honor the supreme musicianship of Mel Tormé; songs by Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Jule Styne, Cy Coleman, and the Velvet Fog himself.

In anticipation of the revival of My Fair Lady, we spend a tuneful day in London Town, from Baker Street to Berkeley Square; singers include Julie Andrews, Noel Coward, Petula Clark, Eric Comstock and more.

A little touch of Broadway comes to Baltimore tonight when the acclaimed New York cabaret team, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano , return to Germano?s Piattini in Little Italy. They?ll present a show called Downton Abbey Road: The Best of Britain . Known for their imaginative interpretations of the American Songbook as well as more contemporary fare, Comstock and Fasano are award-winning artists who are regulars on the New York circuit, as well as in venues around the country. Today, they join Tom in Studio A. We'll hear some recent recordings, and talk about their new show and their storied career as married musical partners.

Cabaret singer/pianist discusses creating the off Broadway show â??Our Sinatraâ?? and what jazz has done to inspire and expand his performances.

Gerry Kowarsky and guest host Mark Bretz discuss the Louies after Gerry and Mark review (1) THE LION KING, by Elton John, Tim Rice, et al., at the Fox Theatre, (2) DAS RHEINGOLD, by Richard Wagner, at Union Avenue Opera, (3) THE COMPLEAT WKS OF WILLM SHKSPER (ABRIDGED), by the Reduced Shakespeare Co., at St. Louis Shakespeare, (4) BARBARA FASANO & ERIC COMSTOCK, at the St. Louis Cabaret Festival, (5) RICK JENSEN, at the St. Louis Cabaret Festival, and (6) JASON GRAAE, at the St. Louis Cabaret Festival.