Cabaret Room: SIDNEY MYER, 7:00pm

Sidney Myer brings his cabaret show to Pangea’s Cabaret Room on December 1, the first of four December dates at the venue. He is joined by musical director Tracy Stark, with Skip Ward on bass and David Silliman on drums. The billed set places Myer’s singing and comic musical repartee at the front, supported by a compact trio; Pangea frames the evening as a dinner-theater performance.

The listing calls Myer a “Downtown Cabaret Legend,” and the critical notices point to a performer who balances comedy with feeling. Will Friedwald wrote that he can make audiences laugh and cry through “a wicked sense of humor and miles and miles of heart,” likening him to “simultaneously Pierrot and Pierrette.” The New York Times’ Stephen Holden described him as “a beloved, latter day vaudevillian” and an “engagingly mischievous dispenser of musical repartee.” Myra Chanin heard “sophistication and style, sentiment and kitsch” in a performance that moves quickly between laughter and tears, while Cabaret Scenes reported two standing ovations after one especially funny set. Tony Marinelli singled out Myer’s rendition of “Pheremones,” writing that its ovation was “not polite appreciation: it was surrender.”