SPEAKER

DTer ROBERT KIMBALL:  musical theater historian, music critic and writer discusses his just published monumental  edition of “The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer.” 1200 of Mercer’s lyrics are included, with “Moon River,” “That  Old Black Magic,” “I Remember You,” and the many other  classics that earned him nineteen Academy Award nominations and four Oscars.  “When my life is through / And the Angels ask me to recall /The thrill of it all, / I shall tell them I REMEMBER You.”       

ENTERTAINMENT

ERIC COMSTOCK and BARBARA FASANO, each a multi-award- winning cabaret headliner and today a husband and wife  team, have been hailed by the Village Voice as “greater than the sum of their impressive individual talents.”  Eric – pianist, vocalist and recording artist – also has written extensively about American popular song, “keeping a cherished tradition alive” (Rex Reed).  Barbara has been praised as “one of the nation’s most stunning and soulful interpreters of the American popular songbook.”  Together, they have been compared by critics to Fred and Ginger and Nick and Nora.