Steve Ross & Karen Murphy: Best Of The Versed 10/8/24

Best of the Versed: A Spotlight on Opening Lyrics

Starring Steve Ross & Karen Murphy

Produced and Hosted by David Alpern

Explore the vivid universe of verse in the Great American Songbook: tunes both familiar and obscure, but all with now rarely-performed introductory lyrics, poetic, pithy, and artfully crafted to tie tunes into so many Golden Age stage and screen musicals; or provide free-standing context – emotional, comical, always lyrical.

As originally written by Ira Gershwin, Larry Hart, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Cahn, even Herman Hupfeld and more.

Steve Ross, dubbed "Crown Prince of Cabaret" by the New York Times, has earned that title over decades at venerable venues throughout Manhattan, across the country and around the world. His dozen CDs include musical explorations of Stepen Sondheim, Alan Jay Lerner, Cole Porter and, of course Noel Coward, whose green velvet smoking jacket – or at least one tailored for Noel in London – was gifted to Steve by Britain's Noel Coward Society. "The smoothest cabaret act in the world" – London Times

Karen Murphy, Broadway credits include: A Little Night Music, 9-to-5, 42nd Street, and Titanic. Off Broadway The Jerusalem Syndrome, My Vaudeville Man, Zombie Prom, and Forbidden Broadway. National tours include: Finding Neverland, Mary Poppins, White Christmas, and Les Miz. CDs include her one woman show. Torch Goddess. "A vision so unique, a performance so original, it can only be described as electrifying.”– Scott Siegel, concert producer/columnist

David Alpern, son of a "girl singer" on the road and radio circa 1939, was a reporter, writer, editor and radio host for Newsweek Magazine over 40 years, interviewing politicians, policy experts and entertainers including Katherine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, George Burns, Barbara Cook, Steve Ross, Mark Nadler, K.T. Sullivan, and Christine Andreas. Long a resident of Sag Harbor on Long Island, he now reviews books for the East Hampton Star and hosts programs for local libraries.

$25.00 cover charge and a $20 Minimum (must include 2 drinks) per person

CASH ONLY

Food Menu Available

Seating from 9:00pm

Approximate running time: 65 minutes