For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.
I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.
Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.
I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.
A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.