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Anyway, Wednesday night I went over to the Triad Theater on West 72nd to see Yanna Avis play Sarah Bernhardt in DIVINE SARAH by David Patrick Columbia – New York Social Diary (11/21/2025) Yanna and I are old friends. We met in Los Angeles through another Sarah, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, who also was her own brand of Divine. Our Sarah, also known as […]

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By David Patrick Columbia, NYSDOL Last Thursday night I went over to 54 Below on West 54th between 7th and 8th, where Yanna Avis was performing her program of cabaret. Yanna, who is French, was married for a long time to Warren Avis, the rent-a-car tycoon. I can’t remember if we first met in Los Angeles or here in New […]

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via 6.17.15 | LIZ SMITH: Hot, High-Heeled Women | New York Social Diary. “Tomorrow night, chanteuse supreme, Yanna Avis returns to Manhattan’s 54 Below with her “Make Some Magic” set of sultry, naughty numbers. Go to www.54below.com for tix info. Yanna brings back the soigné vibe of all those legendary ladies who lounged against pianos in the halcyon days […]

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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. […]

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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 […]