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Mady Kaye Goes Cabaret: A Tribute to Tin Pan Alley is Ms. Kaye's hugely successful venture into cabaret. The show highlights the "Golden Age of Song," the years between 1920 and 1940 in which "Tin Pan Alley" ? the music publishing industry ? burst upon the New York scene. Through songs and stories, we relive the history and heartbreak, the romance and humor of those wonderful years in American popular music, years that brought us Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin and of course, the Gershwins. The Cabaret show was presented at Zachary Scott Theater, Austin, in August 1999 to sold-out houses. The CD, recorded during two nights of the run, makes you, the listener, feel as though you are sitting in the audience. It's up close and personal. The songs are sublime. The singing is lovely. The text is smart and snappy. Just what you'd expect from Mady Kaye. "Kaye is an unabashed fan of the Great American Songbook, and just watching her fervor for it can be captivating. She is a skillful interpreter of Tin Pan Alley's classics, and when she gives voice to these masterpieces of wit and romance, she communicates all the craft, all the feeling that made these songs the standards. . .when she sings softly, her voice comes out like a taut thread of silk: shiny but surprisingly supple and strong." ? Robert Faires, Arts Editor, The Austin Chronicle