The Laziest Gal In Town

'Jane Krakowski- Live At The Regency'
New York cabaret at its best with this wonderful performer making her New York cabaret debut.

Released on CD this week.



Track Listing:
The Laziest Gal in Town
Interlude One
A Little Brains, A Little Talent
Interlude Two
Tweet (Based on "Zip"; new lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman)
Interlude Three
An Englishman Needs Time
Interlude Four
My Handy Man
Interlude Five
I'm Old Fashioned/Old Fashioned Girl
Interlude Six
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Interludes Seven
When I Get Low, I Get High/Wacky Dust
Interlude Eight
Thirteen Men
Interlude Nine
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Interlude Ten
Rubber Duckie

'Tweet' is a brilliantly funny new verion of 'Zip' from 'Pal Joey' written for her by Marc Shaiman.

Updated On: 7/14/10 at 03:04 AM

Its stunning, a real treat. She handles it brilliantly.
Now get her over here!
Sadly, we don't have this kind of cabaret especially with the one true great venue, Pizza On The Park, awaiting closure! These events in London are very very few and far between.
Wasn't so in the 80s and early 90s.

Updated On: 7/14/10 at 06:21 AM

Love her
She was amazing in Guys and Dolls and i love her TV work on 30 Rock

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Bob you must watch 30 Rock, it's so funny and she is so good in it

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I love her.One of the most talented performers around. Her comic timing on 30 Rock is perfect.

Tweet- Kristin Chenowirth won an Emmy- how sweet!
Tweet! Someone sit her down and force her to eat!

Well I listened to this album on loop last night (thanks Mama).

Utterly classy and beguiling!

I'd love to see her perform this live- the links make her sound totally enchanting.

The New York Times

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'An Old-Fashioned Girl Playing Dress-Up Games'
By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Published: October 7, 2009

A gold digger, a femme fatale, a sex-crazed she-devil in a red dress: Jane Krakowski toys lightly with such images in her frothy cabaret act, “Has Sold Out ... Tickets Available,” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. And yes, she wore a shiny red dress at Tuesday’s opening-night show. For the very first number, Cole Porter’s “Laziest Gal in Town,” she sprawled sinuously across the piano (played by her musical director, Michael Kosarin), a delectable real-life pinup striking Marilyn Monroe poses.

The program is an anthology of songs both famous and obscure, loaded with saucy double entendres, that were once staples for the likes of Eartha Kitt, Mae West and Ethel Waters. What she brings to numbers that these and other forerunners have mined for every imaginable shade of lubricity and seduction is an intractable innocence. Instead of danger and challenge, she conveys a wholesome agreeability.

Ms. Krakowski has the blond good looks and the moves to play a more seriously avid variation of the tease. But onstage her libido, if not exactly under lock and key, was set to a low flame. For all the flaunting of her charms, she projected the personality of what used to be called “a sweet, old-fashioned girl” playing games of dress-up. And her inclusion of the Jerome Kern-Johnny Mercer standard “I’m Old Fashioned” as a change of pace reinforced that impression.

In academic terms, you might say the show is a screwball deconstruction of cultural stereotypes. Her vocal echoes of Betty Boop were underlined by bouncy, reed-inflected pop-swing arrangements that sometimes evoked dance-marathon music, especially during a rapidly accelerating version of “Wacky Dust” at the end of which Ms. Krakowski feigned near-collapse from exhaustion. An updated version of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” zigzagged back and forth between a traditional show-tune arrangement and a cabaret rap version.

For the show‘s coup de grâce, she picked up a cellphone to sing a revised version of “Zip,” from “Pal Joey,” which Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the creators of the musical “Hairspray,” turned into “Tweet.” The clever up-to-date new lyrics deluged the audience with dropped celebrity names (everyone from Brangelina to Jon and Kate Gosselin to Mackenzie Phillips) and tidbits of gossip. (“Since Madonna’s dating Jesus she’s blessed/Tweet!/They’ve a manger now on Central Park West.”) It was so much of the moment that Ms. Krakowski wondered if it might not be out of date by the end of the show. Might the song become a continuously updated musical blog?

Jane Krakowski performs through Oct. 17 at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, 540 Park Avenue, at 61st Street; (212) 339-4095, feinsteinsattheregency.com.
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