By Stephen Holden, The New York Times | June 8, 2011 Ah, Paree! As the statuesque French chanteuse Yanna Avis sang Cole Porter’s great ode to the City of Light, “You Don’t Know Paree,” on a recent evening, a composite view of the city as imagined by Balzac, Zola and of course, Porter himself, flickered […]
Yanna Avis At The Metropolitan Room – June 2011
Feinsteins At The Loews Regency Presents Yanna Avis
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 […]
Another part-time sunny day
By David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary | September 30, 2009 “Meanwhile, yesterday in New York. At eight o’clock I went down to Feinstein’s at the Regency to hear my friend Yanna Avis in her debut in that room. Yanna is a chanteuse, “an exotic international chanteuse,” as she’s been described elsewhere. She’s Parisienne […]
Neat Packages
Backstage | January 7, 2004 Joie de vivre! On the subject of refinement, international chanteuse and stunning socialite Yanna Avis brought her new show to the King Kong Room for three SRO performances in December. With musical director Dick Gallagher and direction by Thommie Walsh, the carefully crafted set allowed Avis to be the intimate, […]
Bistro Bits: Joie de Vivre
By John Hoglund, Backstage | February 21, 2001 For the past few years, Yanna Avis has worked hard at her craft. She’s offered wonderfully entertaining shows with a lot of panache. Her multilingual songs in tightly knit acts have always recalled images of Dietrich, Piaf, and the tasteful and charming naughty ladies Cole Porter wrote […]
Bistro Bits : Illusions
By John Hoglund, Backstage | February 21, 2001 RECALLING A CONTINENTAL-STYLE CABARET long associated with elegant bo”tes of another era, international chanteuse Yanna Avis packed them into the intimate FireBird Cafe last week, in a show directed by Barry Kleinbort. Here she sang of the romance and simple charm of another era. While not the […]
Mrs. Avis Can Sing
By Rex Reed, New York Observer | May 22, 2000 At the FireBird Cafe, what’s left of cafe society is cramming in tight as the Russian caviar to see glamorous chanteuse Yanna Avis conduct a guided tour through a landscape of love that roams sensually from the boîtes of Edith Piaf’s Paris to the cellars […]
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