First thing first

First thing first : " An Evening at the Carlyle "Isn't actually at the Caryle. It is performed at the Algonquin Theatre,which shouldn't be confused at the Hotel of the same name.
Instead Al Tapper who's also -behind the long -running of- Broadway musical revue at the carlyle's famed Bemelmans Bar. Performed on aset that effectively suggests the swanky boite of its title including a cartoon representation of woody allen adn and his clarinet. " An Evening at the Carlyle " features a six- member cash performing two dozen original numbers revolving aound life in the big Apple. Three of the Performes --Amanda Gabbard,Michael F.McGuirk and Jason Rowland --play nearly a dozen people including Liza Minneli,An coulter, the Donald and the Barbra Streisands, who orders Manischewitz. The-vine voice Dannis Holland is Tommy,the seen it-all bartender. kelly maguire is the barfly whose theme song is the oft-reprised ." bundle of contradictions", and "sessions" star Rachelle Rak Shows up as herself,singing a number from that show in a blatant plug.
The songs a pleasantly melodic but unmemorable ,marred by awkward attemps at humor.Take,for example a liriyc from " roommates": " i'm a Jew and so a toolbox/is a mystery to me/it's lucky you're a gentile/you can fix the DVD.
The worst numbers are the celebrity lampoons ,such as the drunken Liza's "Under the Rainbow" or a predictably arrogant Donald's warblink "who'd Want NY With No Trump?".
Far better arethe nostalgia-Themed songs such as the loving numbers devoted to such hometown favorites as " The Sinatra Sound,"" joltin joe" and "Broklyn".
Despite the generaly fine efforts of it's ensemble," An Evening at the arlyle "is a luckluster affair.The $35 tickets price whould be better spent at the real Bemelmans an a couple of glasses of good wine.


AN EVENING AT THE CARLYLE Algonquin Theater, 123 E. 24th St.; 212-868-4444.

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