YANNA AVIS, June 18 at 9:30PM: “Ah Paree! Evoking ’50s glamour through teasing taunts, statuesque French chanteuse Yanna Avis sings with a wry understanding… The show’s essence is distilled in a word heard less and less nowadays: chic.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times. With her new show “Make Some Magic” Yanna Avis takes us […]
Yanna Avis: Make Some Magic | Eddie Parsons — Huffington Post
via Yanna Avis: Make Some Magic | Eddie Parsons, Huffington Post Yanna Avis is a magical person blessed with equal parts physical beauty and inner beauty. The kind of woman who reminds you of an elegance that has been lost in modern society but a kindness and intelligence that is very much present. I have known Yanna […]
Bistro Awards Selects Yanna Avis for “Make Some Magic”
By BistroAwards.com | June 4, 2015 French singer-actress returns to 54 Below with her new show, “Make Some Magic.” The lady on stage is about as glamorous as a person can be. Ah! But underneath is a warm and intelligent artist. Read More
Yanna Avis @ 54 Below
theaterlife.com | June 4, 2015 French chanteuse Yanna Avis will return to 54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, with her new show Make Some Magic on Thursday, June 18 at 9:30PM. Her previous appearance in April sold-out completely. Make Some Magic takes the audience on a romantic journey through the landscape of love in Yanna’s signature […]
Encore Performance: “Make Some Magic” at 54 Below – New York
Sophisticated Lady: The Sultry Yanna Avis is no Innocent Ingénue
By Rex Reed | May 14, 2014 New York used to be a swinging town after dark. Now it’s just lonely. After dessert is served, the cafes close. After the boring, obligatory standing ovations that end every show in town whether it’s any good or not, the theaters empty and the audience heads home. Back in the […]
Smoky Vocals: Yanna Avis
By Michael Gross, Avenue Magazine | May 16, 2013 Tonight and Friday at 10:45 PM, Yanna Avis plays the last of her shows this month in the Café Carlyle’s Second Act series of late night performances. The lanky Paris-born chanteuse, best-known to New Yorkers, perhaps, as the widow of Warren Avis of the rent-a-car Avises, […]
The Name Above The Title
By David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary | May 13, 2013 “Yanna performs in the European tradition of the chanteuse. Neither Marlene Dietrich (although along those lines) nor Piaf, Yanna nevertheless brings their sentiments and emotional intimacy, with her style, to her songs. Her show is for You. I’ve seen her perform several times. […]
Cafe Carlyle Presents Yanna Avis
Photo Coverage: Yanna Avis Brings IN LOVE WITH LOVE to Cafe Carlyle
By Stephen Sorokoff, Broadwayworld.com | May 10, 2013 “Yanna Avis makes her Café Carlyle debut with a new show, titled In Love with Love which will feature her usual sophisticated, European cabaret. The program will be multi-lingual from a variety of influences including Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Friedrich Hollander and other classics. In Love with Love […]
Lounging Around With Yanna Avis
By Taylor Harris, Women’s Wear Daily | May 8, 2013 “Well, I’ve been told it’s husky,” Yanna Avis says, settling into her persimmon wraparound sofa, the centerpiece of the drawing room of her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that overlooks Central Park. “I don’t know how I feel about it, but I guess it’s […]
Yanna Avis debuts new show ‘In Love With Love’ at Cafe Carlyle
Avis, known as a ‘chanteuse’ whose work is both dramatic and musical, reveals her sense of cabaret that blends theater and story, elegence and costume, with song. BY TOM DWORETZKY , NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Known for her chic and sultry cabaret performances and her “smoky” voice, her sophistication comes from a worldly […]
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