The Colony Hotel - Palm Beach Opens Summer Cabaret Season
At The Royal Room with Singer MAUDE MAGGART
May 23-24 & 30-31, 2008
The Colony Hotel - which The Palm Beach Post recently hailed as probably the best place for cabaret on the planet- opens its Summer Cabaret series in The Royal Room
with celebrated chanteuse MAUDE MAGGART, who was favorably profiled and reviewed in three major national publications last month:
New York Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
The Colony's Royal Room is offering summer cabaret shows every Friday and Saturday night. The doors open for dinner at 6:45 p.m., with performances starting around 8 p.m.
To make reservations, please call the hotel box-office at 561.659.8100.
The Colony is located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach, just one block south of Worth Avenue, one block west of the Atlantic Ocean.
May 23-24 & 30-31:
MAUDE MAGGART Back by Popular Demand
Perhaps cabaret superstar Andrea Marcovicci said it best: “I'm crazy about Maude Maggart. She has the voice of a 1920s torch singer: tender, tremulous and true.
She'll move you to tears one moment and to laughter the next. Don't miss her!”
As cabaret reviewer Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, “Maude Maggart conjures the ghosts of yesterday.... (She) suggests a shadowy film-noir siren: the bewitching, under-age daughter of a wealthy, upright family who secretly moonlights as a nightclub chanteuse and consorts with gangsters. As she tosses her head back voluptuously, her voice keening and swooping in phrases that come out as extended sighs, Ms. Maggart channels a character to whom other singers only refer.”
The popular singer was the subject of three major media profiles in April 2008:
+In a new review in The New York Times, Holden hailed her ethereal voice with a supernatural glow.
+The Wall Street Journal declared, Ms. Maggart sings conversationally, heart on sleeve, in a soprano that is both cool and full of yearning.
+And New York Magazine proclaimed, Maggart's languorous vibrato allows a song's lyrics to speak for themselves, and the effect is haunting. It can transport an audience beyond the staid room - which is what the Great American Songbook's idiom was meant to do. It's live performance at its artistic best.
Tickets are $100 per person for dinner and show
$50 for show only plus $15 minimum for food and beverage.
Additional live music at The Colony:
Polo Steakhouse Presents 'Motown Friday Nights' with MEMORY LANE
Friday - 9 p.m. to closing
Polo Steakhouse Presents "Saturday Night Cast Party"
with Popular Pop Duo JILL & RICH
Saturday --9 p.m. to closing
About The Colony Hotel - Palm Beach
Host to Presidents Bush and Clinton, the Windsors and other royalty, The Colony has been the center of Palm Beach society for more than 60 years. An intimate, friendly boutique hotel with British Colonial flair, it is just steps away from shopping on world famous Worth Avenue, and about 100 yards from a beautiful Atlantic Ocean beach. This landmark hotel recently completed an extensive $15-million renovation and offers guests the choice of charming hotel rooms, luxurious suites, spectacular penthouses and spacious two bedroom villas - plus beautiful grounds and Frette linens.
The Colony's popular restaurants include:
+ Polo, which is now Palm Beach's number one steakhouse, offering dining al fresco in the hotel's newly remodeled Palm Court by the pool
+ Royal Room, which is widely considered to be on of the top five cabarets in the country
+ Cafîb55, which is perfect for breakfast, lunch and delicious box lunches for busy people on the go.
In 2007, The Colony Hotel once again was awarded the prestigious 4-Diamond rating from AAA.
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