He's also handling PR and entertainment for the newly renovated Agua Soleil Hotel and Mineral Spa in Desert Hot Springs. Also Cabaret producer Les Michaels and singer Jerome Eliott. On September 4th, I welcome actor De...
By Desert Scene | August 28, 2010
Harry is a veteran producer and director of television and film, including the annual aand keyboard player Eric Frankson, currently playing at Le Paon in Palm Desert and working with music and Alzheimer's patients. On A...
By Desert Scene | August 7, 2010
Ric Marlow won the Grammy for writing the classic "A Taste of Honey." He's written hundreds of songs since and is a phenomenal cabaret singer in his own right. A great pal of mine, he's got hundreds of terrific showbiz...
By Desert Scene | July 27, 2010
My guests will be the multi-talented Mark Almy...opera singer, actor and music professor at College of the Desert. He'll be discussing a musical event coming up July 31st to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake....
By Desert Scene | July 20, 2010
That would be Emmy nominated make-up artist Judy Twine, who's part of a big "Mid-Summer Night" themed event on July 23rd in Old Town La Quinta, put on by Pretty Commitee Inc. Also singer Tom Cooper and maybe a surprise...
By Desert Scene | July 14, 2010
This week I've got more great cabaret performers - Dean Regan who will star in "Give My Regards to Broadway" at The Joslyn Center Theatre July 3rd, and then my buddy and fellow Cabaret Theatre West Alumni, the FABULOUS C...
By Desert Scene | July 1, 2010
He's a very talented radio vet who's done a great job filling in for me in the past. His guests will include Miss Catlyn Day,a dead-ringer for Marilyn Monroe, actor-singer exraordinaire Paul McKey, Idyllwild Arts instru...
By Desert Scene | June 17, 2010
He's got lots to talk about, including Trini Garza's "Live it Up-Unplugged" at Blame it On Midnight. Les will also give us the scoop on who else will be performing in his Summer Cabaret Series. Also, multi-talented Che...
By Desert Scene | June 11, 2010
Ms. Jan Daley with "Where There's Hope," and Ms. Robyn Spangler with "Let Me Sing." Both will be appearing at the fabulous Blame It on Midnight. Also Ms. Sharon McKnight, fresh from a triumphant engagement at the Metro...
By Desert Scene | May 28, 2010
He and Laura Wolfe will both be featured in Les Michael's Cabaret Series at "Blame it on Midnight" this weekend. The show is sure to be as great as the performance by Stepfanie Kramer and Greg Marx last week. The season...
By Desert Scene | May 21, 2010
Mr. Jerry Panattieri, who is hilarious in the show, will join us on "The Desert Scene." And did you know that KPSP Local 2 weatherman Patrick Evans can sing? Well, he can, quite well, actually. He'll be here talking a...
By Desert Scene | April 27, 2010
Opera singer extraordinaire, and a terrific lady. She's starring in "Desert Divas" with Donna Theodore in Indian Wells on April 17th. Also, Singer Karen Schmidt, part of Sun City's "Bach to Rock to Pop." And Desert Sym...
By Desert Scene | April 8, 2010
Carol Welsman, who's appearing at Vicky's of Santa Fe in Indian Wells April 5th. Also Denise DuBarry Hay on some great scholarships at Marywood Palm Valley School, and Judi Pofski-Cohen, on what's cooking at the McCallu...
By Desert Scene | March 27, 2010
She'll be appearing at the Annenberg in Palm Springs on April 21st. Also on this week's "Desert Scene," Suzy Cadham, one of the original "Golddiggers" on an upcoming chat at the Indian Wells Theatre with another former...
By Desert Scene | March 22, 2010
That is, the actors who play them - Chris Sands and Charles Herrera. I'm honored to be playing their Muse, and audiences are loving the show! Also featured today on The Desert Scene - The always entertaining Jere Ring,...
By Desert Scene | March 13, 2010
This Saturday on "The Desert Scene" we've got a jam-packed show with some heavy hitters! Ms. Dee Etta Rowe, part of the cast of the hit show "Menopause the Musical" at the Annenberg, the multi-talented Norman Mark and M...
By Desert Scene | February 27, 2010
this Saturday, February 6th, along with Ellen Crawdford, a.k.a. Nurse Lydia on tv.s "E.R." They're starring in "Love Letters" at Sun City Shadow Hills this Saturday and Sunday. Also the incomprable Rebecca Clark - find...
By Desert Scene | February 4, 2010
Join me Saturday January 2nd when my guests will be sisters Elizabeth Dreyfuss and Dela Zimmer, who are starring in "Relatively Singing: An Evening of Sibling Revelry" at Sun City Shadow Hills in Indio. Also members of...
By Desert Scene | January 1, 2010
My guests will be dynamic enternatainers Grant Griffin and Poupee Boccaccio, now appearing at Club Trinidad, Also a couple of filmmakers with entries in the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and once again, the f...
By Desert Scene | December 25, 2009
It's our annual Christmas show, featuring holiday music, stories and much frivolity! Steve Petersen is back again playing guitar, and top notch singers Gino and Derrik Lewis will perform. (I may sing a bit, too...) We'...
By Desert Scene | December 17, 2009
I'm very proud and excited to be a member of the company. We open Jaunary 13th at the Hyatt Grand Champions in Indian Wells. This Saturday my guests will include our incredibly talented musical director, Paul Cracchio...
By Desert Scene | December 6, 2009
My guests will be Freddie Lightfoot, known as "Foot," who sings the Great American Standards by folks like Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Tony Bennett...also extraordinarily talented artists and fun couple Karen and Tony...
By Desert Scene | November 25, 2009
Ms. Yve Evans will join us on Saturday's "Desert Scene" to preview her upcoming holiday show at the Arthur Newman Theatre at Joslyn Sr. Center - "Christmas Yve." Enormously talented and very spiritual, Yve is also a hoo...
By Desert Scene | November 18, 2009
This Saturday I'm joined by Joel Hochberg, who'll tell us all about a big concert coming up presented by the Rancho Mirage Cultural Commission- Laine Kazana and Tierney Sutton - First Time Ever Together! Also my buddy K...
By Desert Scene | November 5, 2009
What better way to mark Halloweeen than to have celebrated Hollywood psychic Cheri Mancuso doing readings live over the phone throughout the show....She really knows her stuff! Don't ask unless you really want to know!!...
By Desert Scene | October 27, 2009
The October 24th show will include a return visit by performer/cabaret promoter Les Michaels and another one of his stars, Joanne Tatham, who'll be appearing at Confessions. Also Michael Lombard with information about th...
By Desert Scene | October 20, 2009
-and director Joanne Reeves will be my guests, plus half of the cast of Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" at the Arthur Newman Theatre in Palm Desert - Arnie and Janet Kleban. Also a song or two from the band "Judge Jackson",...
By Desert Scene | October 7, 2009
young singer will share with us what he's up to. Then my pal, Ron Celona, founder of Coachella Valley Repertory will give us the scoop on "Relections of Lino" at the Annenberg Theatre. Finally, the return of Brad Merce...
By Desert Scene | October 3, 2009
will join me this Staurday on "The Desert Scene." She's got some very exiting stuff coming up at the Indio Performing Arts Center! Also Kevin Goodall with Ignite Youth Dinner Theatre, and Kim Laidlaw explaining how you...
By Desert Scene | September 15, 2009
His guests will include the unpredictable, but ALWAYS entertaining Happy Howie Glenn-Rawley. They'll dish about the theatre scene here in the valley. Make SURE to get your tickets to the 2nd Big Band Bonanza at the Mir...
By Desert Scene | September 7, 2009
