Marilyn Maye at the Metropolitan Room/ Dan Zanes at the Museum of Natural History

To call Marilyn Maye a saloon singer is like calling a Rolls Royce a car. This chanteuse, elegant at 81, likes her martinis straight up, and favors Johnny Mercer tunes made famous by Frank Sinatra like “Summer Wind,” and especially “Drinking Again,” and “One for my Baby and One More for the Road,” songs that speak to late night lonely whisperings to a bartender. Saloons, she informed the uninitiated, were called “upholstered sewers.” She's just completed a run at New York's Metropolitan Room, 9 sold out nights celebrating Mercer's centennial, “Mercer, the Maye Way,” with standards like “Too Marvelous for Words,” “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “I'm Old Fashioned,” “That Old Black Magic,” “I Wanna Be Around,” “Goody Goody,” and more. A knowing crowd, including cabaret insiders like piano man Ray Cohen and crooner Steve Ross, stood and cheered after the generous hour plus set that also featured Tedd Firth at the piano, Tom Hubbard on bass, and Jim Eklof, her drummer for over forty years. Maye's East Coast tour ends on June 26 when she will perform in East Hampton at Guild Hall. Don't miss her show there, but if you do, don't despair. She promised to be back at the Metropolitan Room in October.

      

For Father's Day, the Museum of Natural History offered the hottest ticket in town: Disney Channel's Dan Zanes and Friends, an intimate concert for 300 under the belly of the whale. By the second song, gyrating tots gravitated toward the stage. Most were boogying along to signature tunes including “Strike the Bell” “Sloop John B,” “How Do You Do,” and “Fare Thee Well My Own True Love.” Zane who sports a groovy gray fro also offered a drinking song. He assured the grown ups, he checked with his mom and she gave him the thumbs up. Spotted among the dads was Matthew Broderick, his mutton chop sideburns, leftover from his starring role on Broadway, in “The Philanthropist.” Could Sarah Jessica be far behind?

Regina Weinreich

Graphic Design: Salpeter Ventura

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