By Peter Haas, Cabaret Scenes | June 13, 2011 An accordion begins. Yanna Avis—slim, blonde, sultry—enters in a clinging black dress. Parisian by birth, actress by training and career, she reinvented herself several years ago as a cabaret singer, and in that role made her Metropolitan Room debut in June, in a multilingual program of […]
Feinstein’s at Loews Regency: Cabaret Scenes
By Lynn Dimenna, Cabaret Scenes | October 12, 2009 Yanna Avis has been called a cross between Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich and that is certainly a flattering comparison. On the contemporary scene she might remind one of “Uma” or “Ute,” as in Thurman or Lemper, given the equally alluring and mysterious quality they share […]
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