CHANGE PARTNERS: Life's a Dance
FINISHING THE ACT: Act One Finales from Broadway
STEPPING INTO LOVE: Arlen in the Thirties
AT LONG LAST LOVE: A Cole Porter Evening
SOMETHING WONDERFUL: An Evening of Richard Rodgers
  Life's a Dance CHANGE PARTNERS: Life's a Dance (trio or piano accompaniment) "Craig Rubano has had all the makings of a top-flight cabaret entertainer for some time...it's always impressive when a performer slips the room on like a glove. Rubano made it a perfect fit...beaming with good cheer and hearty confidence. Change Partners is a worthy follow-up to his superb Finishing the Act set."Life's a Dance in this romantic and witty celebration of one of life's deepest and scariest pleasures: contact with another person! Craig Rubano sweeps the audience off its feet and across a dance floor of love songs by some of the most enduring songwriting partnerships of the last century: Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz Irving Berlin Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn Harold Arlen & E.Y. "Yip" Harburg Jerry Herman Andrew Lloyd Webber & Don Black Lew Brown & Ray Henderson Noël Coward Gerry Goffin & Carole King... Change Partners capped the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 2003 New York City Cabaret Convention at The Town Hall and the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room. BOOKINGS: ArthurShafman.com REFERENCE: MabelMercer.org  Act One Finales from Broadway FINISHING THE ACT: Act One Finales from Broadway (Orchestra, 5-piece band, trio or piano accompaniment) "An exceptionally well-conceived cabaret show. Fresh, personal approaches to some of the most daunting first-act closing numbers in Broadway theatrical history.""Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George "Sexually Free" from I Love My Wife "Anything Goes" from Anything Goes "There's Always One You Can't Forget" from Dance a Little Closer "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" from The Sound of Music "Welcome to the Theater" from Applause BOOKINGS: ArthurShafman.com EventManagementGroup.com REFERENCE: MabelMercer.org  Harold Arlen in the Thirties STEPPING INTO LOVE: Arlen in the Thirties (Piano or trio accompaniment) From "Get Happy" to The Wizard of Oz, Craig Rubano pays tribute to Harold Arlen in anticipation of the composer's centennial in 2005 With the cooperation of Arlen's biographer, Rubano unearths material (some unpublished) that fleshes out the smoky, dizzy, druggy, rocky, dance-crazed, grand decade of extremes when Arlen and America hit their stride... It's the story of Prohibition, the Cotton Club and the Dust Bowl; of FDR, Cab Calloway and Bert Lahr; of lyricists Ted Koehler, Jack Yellen and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg; of Anya Taranda, the love of Arlen's life; of the Hollywood Movie Musical and of Broadway. "Get Happy" "Let's Fall in Love" "As Long as I Live" "Ill Wind" "Last Night When We Were Young" "I Love a Parade" "Down with Love" "The Wizard of Oz" BOOKINGS: ArthurShafman.com REFERENCE: MabelMercer.org  An Evening of Cole Porter AT LONG LAST LOVE: A Cole Porter Evening (Piano or trio accompaniment) At a completely Sold-Out evening at the Cafe Carlyle in New York City, Craig Rubano sang a tale of the music and lyrics of Cole Porter. From the fact of Craig and Cole's shared membership in Yale University's Whiffenpoofs to Rubano's conclusion that Cole Porter has, in effect, written our language — our vocabulary — of Love. Anything Goes I Am in Love Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) Bulldog Red, Hot and Blue So in Love Begin the Beguine I Love Paris You've Got that Thing Just One of those Things You'd be So Nice to Come Home To You Irritate Me So All of You Paree, What Did You Do to Me? Dream-Dancing At Long Last Love At Long Last Love capped the 2004 Mabel Mercer Foundation's 15th Anniversary of the New York City Cabaret Convention at The Town Hall and the Carlyle Hotel's Cafe Carlyle. BOOKINGS: ArthurShafman.com REFERENCE: MabelMercer.org   A Richard Rodgers Centennial (with Heather Mac Rae, Mark Nadler & KT Sullivan) SOMETHING WONDERFUL: An Evening of Richard Rodgers (Available for orchestra or piano accompaniment) Heather Mac Rae Mark Nadler Craig Rubano KT Sullivan KT Sullivan & Mark Nadler (American Rhapsody) are joined by Craig Rubano (Les Misérables) and Heather Mac Rae (Falsettos), daughter of Rodgers' films star Gordon MacRae. More than 40 hits from Rodgers & Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein, II "Four of cabaret's finest professionals, award-winners themselves, presented a warm, winning, stylish and richly musical tour of Rodgers' music...just enough dollops of narrative to illuminate Rodgers' professional and personal lives, and all woven smoothly into a thoroughly delightful show. Audience response through the evening included warm smiles, outright laughter, occasional moist eyes in reaction to a heartfelt song interpretation, and, at show's end, stand-up applause... All four are cabaret headliners in their own right; all are working actors/singers, successful in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater and in television; all have received Cabaret's top honors...we were in the company of good friends, sharing good music in a spirit of good fun‹performers who also respected that music, and the listeners, by letting the songs speak for themselves."BOOKINGS: ArthurShafman.com 
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