Carol Woods

It's Liza-as-you-love-her in Stepping Out, a modest heartwarmer about a bunch of suburban left-feeters getting it together for a charity dance spot. Fragile ensemble item often creaks under the Minnelli glitz, but results are likeable enough. Adapted by Richard Harris from his 1984 award-winning play, action is switched from a London church hall to a Buffalo, NY, equivalent. Minnelli is a former pro hoofer who's now teaching amateur dance classes on the side. (Variety)

Billed as 'The Broadway Blues Musical', Blues in the Night by Sheldon Epps is set in a seedy Chicago hotel in the '30's where three women tell a sizzling story of love and abandonment through the songs of Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Duke Ellington, and other giants of contemporary music. Musical numbers are played in a comic style - particularly playing up the sexual innuendo.