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CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
#020406 - Monday, April 22, 2002
Since 1990 Your First, Best, and Only Source of Cabaret News
If it's anything to do
with cabaret, you'll probably read it here first!
Cabaret critics and reviewers
are a lot like cabaret performers - while we compete with each other
for an audience, we remain friends and support each other. Thus, when
Barbara & Scott Siegel asked me to pass along the following statement,
I promptly agreed.
Here is
a statement from Barbara and Scott Siegel:
"We will
no longer be writing for Back Stage. After an unusually contentious
Bistro Award process this year, Sherry Eaker called to say that she
was uncomfortable working with us. We think it's unfortunate that
she gave us no warning of her discomfort, and we regret that she did
not give us the opportunity to discuss and resolve this issue with
her, despite our request for a meeting. She apparently thinks that
eliminating us from the column rotation is the way to solve the problem.
We want
the community to know that Sherry's decision will have no bearing
on our commitment to cabaret. We will not only continue writing our
weekly Cabaret Notes column at Theatermania.com, we will expand it
to twice weekly with new columns appearing every week on Tuesday and
Friday, beginning April 26th. We will also now provide weekly reviews
to our Two of Clubs column at Cabaret Hotline Online in our capacity
as Chief New York Reviewers. In addition, we will continue covering
cabaret on our weekly radio broadcasts, which are heard on approximately
100 stations across the U.S. And, of course, we will continue to pursue
other ways in which to bring more attention to cabaret and its performers."
I personally am happy
to see that Barbara & Scott continue in their commitment to cabaret,
and that their reviews and comments will receive even more circulation
than before via the internet. Perhaps my friendship with this delightful
NYC couple is so strong because I see them so often in the clubs.
There are not enough cabaret reviewers around as it is, and Barb &
Scott's dedication and constant attendance at cabaret shows is an
encouragement to all. And Scott's inclusion of so many cabaret performers
in his Town Hall series "Broadway by the Year" has introduced a wider
audience to the talent seen in cabaret.
You might want to express
your thoughts on this major change in the Bistro Bits column to the
folks at BACK STAGE magazine, so I include the addresses of the Publisher,
Steve Elish, as well as Editor-in-Chief Sherry Eaker. I am sure that
Barbara & Scott would appreciate a copy of your comments as well,
so I include both their mailing and e-mail addresses.
Steve Elish, Publisher
Back Stage
770 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
cc: Sherry Eaker, Editor-in-Chief,
Back Stage
770 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
cc: Barbara & Scott Siegel
320 East 58th Street, #5B
New York, NY 10022
email at siegelentertainment@msn.com
You are also free to express
your thoughts on the Cabaret Message Board on the CABARET HOTLINE
ONLINE website (http://www.cabarethotlineonline.com/).
We will be sending out
another issue of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE in a day or so, and may have
more to say then.
And that is just about
the way it was.
Hugs & Stuff,
STU
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