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The Pleasure of Your Company
Two of New York's most acclaimed and award-winning vocalists, Karen Oberlin and Miles Phillips, combine their gorgeous voices in their highly anticipated new show - The Pleasure of Your Company.
These two longtime mutual admirers finally revel in the luxury of their thrillingly matched voices. Both accomplished actors and singers, they draw in their show from their successes in different arenas, Oberlin (jazz) and Phillips (theatre), and join forces on common ground in which they both have enjoyed great success (cabaret).
Songs included represent the Great American Songbook in all its glory, from Broadway to bebop and back. Musical Direction is provided by MAC and Bistro Award winner Tracy Stark.
Karen Oberlin & Miles Phillips
The Pleasure of Your Company
One Sunday each month!
Sunday, August 17 - 4pm
Sunday, September 14 - 4pm
Sunday, October 12 - 4pm
$20 Cover - Two Beverage minimum
The Metropolitan Room
34 West 22nd Street
NY, NY 10010
Reservations Highly Recommended: 212-206-0440
Online Reservations
Quiet Stars hailed as "The Cabaret Act of the YEAR!"
And NOW Miles has been named the winner of the 2008 MAC Award:
Outstanding Male Vocalist!
Miles' new show premiered to cheering houses and unanimous acclaim at The Metropolitan Room this October!
Quiet Stars - a passionate foray into the "Songs of the Night" - is his most romantic show to date!
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The diverse collection of songwriters represented in the show include: Kate Bush, Meredith Wilson, The Rolling Stones, Carlisle Floyd, Bronski Beat, Frank Loesser, Sergio Mendes, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Mark Campbell, Steve Marzullo, Tracy Stark, Patsy Cline, Cy Coleman, The Bee Gees, Stephen Sondheim, Bock & Harnick, Kander & Ebb, Herrman & Harman, Rodgers & Hammerstein and, of course, Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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"'Hey Venus!' ... The cabaret act of the YEAR! ... an absolutely stunning high ... a show full of highlights ... what a unique talent Phillips is, one of our finest singers and actors ... and in this act he surpasses anything he ever has done before! ... One cannot praise enough the musical collaboration between Phillips and Wynn on the show. They are indeed soul mates and perfectly complement each other in every way! ... I suggest you reserve early because this is goinng to be the act to beat when cabaret awards are given out for 2007."
Joe Regan Jr. / CabaretExchange.com
"With his new show, Quiet Stars, award winner Miles Phillips took an uncommon approach. Instead of reaching out to his audience in the conventional manner of cabaret, Quiet Stars created a very personal world of Phillips' own, and he invited his audience in to share it with him ... In fact, there was a certain 'do you understand?' quality to the show, for the melodies and lyrics in many of the songs required his audience's involvement as Phillips sang. To fully appreciate Quiet Stars, they had to do more than just sit back and let sounds and sentimental words wash over them. The feelings he sang about were not only emotional but also often sexually raw and direct ... His tunes varied from Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic 'We Kiss In A Shadow' to 'He Never Did That Before,' which metamorphosed in Phillips' rendition from exuberance to puzzlement to anger and convictions of infidelity ... Quiet Stars was a strong show and an interesting one, one that would be difficult for a less versatile performer than Phillips, who is a well-trained actor with a fine and finely tuned voice."
Peter Leavy / Cabaret Scenes
"To invoke an old but pleasant saying, Phillips has a way about him. That way is made up of equal parts steel-girder-strong baritone and take-me-as-I-am personality ... exquisite ... genuinely gracious ... that's what I call intimate-room savoir-faire."
David Finkle / Back Stage
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Miles was also nominated for the 2008 MAC Award:
Director!
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A sidesplittingly hilarious montage of clips from Ben Rauch's An Evening With Horace Vanderveer is burning up YouTube.
Miles Directed the show (and makes a little cameo in the video, see if you can spot him).
Check it out! Next up - the big screen! Seriously.
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Miles directs 2008 MAC and Bistro Award Winner Jonathan Whitton (Male Debut) in his return to The Laurie Beechman in
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
The Laurie Beechman Theatre
407 W. 42nd Street
September, 2008 - Check back for the schedule
$12 Cover + $15 Food/Drink Minimum
Reservations: 212-695-6909
". . . working with director Miles Phillips and musical director Steven Ray Watkins, Jonathan scores. Everything's warmer, sharper, more communicative, and he uses his vibrant, attractive voice more fully. Intriguing from his start, he's now more open and touching as the theatrical 'fourth wall' comes down."
Rob Lester / Cabaret Scenes
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Miles reunited with his Carol Channing + 2 costar to direct the smash hit theatrical run of
Carol Channing In Concert Starring Richard Skipper!
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The Cabaret Archives page has info on many of Miles' Cabaret career highlights. Some of his past shows still live on - either on the road, or on the record. Click on any of them for all the information on these wonderful shows!
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Miles' celebration of life's "stepping off points" was a multiple award-winning triumph!
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.Miles' 2004 Nightlife Award honored performance in The Unrest Inside Me.
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Miles' acclaimed Spring Break show that ran through the Fall of 2000!
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Miles' Smash-Hit revue of Shakespeare in song!.
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