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 […]
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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