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It is said that most of us have several career paths in a lifetime. The addition of reviewing is more of a fun path for Sandi as she calls upon her many years of experience and expertise as producer, performer and business person, parlaying it all into reviewing cabaret, theater and writing articles for various publications.
Cabaret Scenes Magazine www.cabaretscenes.org is both an online website and the only hard copy publication devoted to promoting the art of cabaret nationwide. Its monthly publication can be found at book stores and stands around the country. It is published by Peter Leavy. Frank Dain is Editor. Sandi has written articles for Cabaret Scenes Magazine including "Ervin Drake-The Very Good Years", June 2008, "MAC The Silver Anniversary", November 2008, and reviewed many performers. The list includes: Neile Adams, Ashford & Simpson, Broadway By The Year-1947 and 1979, Broadway Unplugged, Helen Baldassare, Raissa Katona-Bennett, Nikki Blonsky, Liz Callaway, Lynda Carter, Chris Cross, Jack Donahue, John Treacy Egan, Eileen Fulton, LaTanya Hall, Mary Cleere Haran, Jeff Harnar, Sam Harris, Garrison Keillor, Barry Lloyd, Pamela Luss, Karen Mason, Andrea McArdle, Jane Monheit, Freda Payne, Billy Stritch/Klea Blackhurst, Steve Tyrell, Dane Vannatter, Julie Wilson, Tom Wopat. *To access reviews on that site, check the current reviews by performer name or the Archives by performer last name. Broadway After Dark www.broadwayafterdark.com is an online website created and published by Ward Morehouse III on which Sandi has her own column entitled 'Cabaret and Other Wanderings.' Click on 'correspondents' and "Sandi Durell" to access reviews, interviews and other wanderings which include Michael Feinstein, Anna Bergman, Chita Rivera, Brian Stokes Mitchell, 20th Annual Gypsy of the Year Awards, The Folksbiene and interviews with Andrew Wight, composer/lyricist of the Broadway bound musical "Mother Russia" as well as David Kaufman, biographer of "Doris Day:The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door." Please see: www.motherrussiamusical.com. |