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Marieann Meringolo Returns To DTM With BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
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Oct 31, 2022
Award-winning cabaret trailblazer and 2019 MAC Award nominee (Major Female Artist) Marieann Meringolo will return to Don't Tell Mama for a one-night-only engagement of her show BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW: THE SONGS OF ALAN andamp; MARILYN BERGMAN.
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Hi there, it's Eugene Ebner with Broadway World TV
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We're at the infamous Don't Tell Mama in the heart of New York City. And it's a pleasure to be sitting with the one and only Marie-Ann Maringalo
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Hi, how are you? Great, Eugene. How are you? It's so good to be with you
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It's so good to be with you. I appreciate you not only because of your beautiful voice and your talent
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but your heart and your sparkle. I love sparkle. You have to have the sparkle
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Exactly. Thank you. So you have a show here on Friday, March 8th, beginning at 7 p.m
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And it is entitled Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, The Songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman
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Perfect. Thank you. I got an A+. Absolutely. You know what I love about this for many reasons is I like the song that you're representing in the title
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I like the meaning of it because I think it can mean something different to everyone. Absolutely
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But I just love all of the music that those two have composed and created for us to enjoy
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over the last five decades. I think 16 Academy Award nominations I read
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It's amazing. And just because I get excited, two songs that I really love are The Way We Were and
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The Windmills of Your Mind. I love both. But I mean, I know those are probably two of the most popular, but I really do adore
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both of those songs. How did this come to you? What what's it about their music that inspired you to want to put on a show like this
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Well, I've always been inspired by the music since a young age
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I think I discovered their music in Yentl when I didn't even realize it was them
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And then as I really delve into music and started to understand it better
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I noticed that it was they were the songwriters. So I decided to just really
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investigate who they were and learn about their music and I love how their
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songs just tell a story and for me every time I sing one of their songs it's like
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I'm I'm singing for the first time and taking the audience and myself on a
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journey and it it's amazing because wherever you are in your world when you
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sing this music when you listen to it it does keep you in the present moment
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but it also helped that you reminisce, but it's also what it means for you today
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And I find that so amazing just amazing Well I agree with you And I mentioned to you off camera that for me it did bring me just even to that place of the now like you said
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And that's what we do as performers. Yeah. If we do connect and we bring it out for the people in here
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we take them to that moment. And hopefully people forget about what's going on in their life
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that maybe it's unhappy to them or things are struggling in it. But it brings them to that place
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Yeah. But also maybe the good times when I think of the way we were my mother was a huge barbara streisand fan
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And I also love her and I remember her playing that as a child
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and so when I hear that song it makes me think of her and she has transitioned and is no longer with us in physical form
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So it brings me to that Place wonderful. Yeah, what about you now with when you cuz every performer has a different way that they
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create a show what is it for you with the flow and the songs that you choose
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because they have such a large repertoire so how do you go about that well I presented the idea to my director Will Nunziata and he was right on board
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with the project and I felt each song told its own story like I said before
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that their songs just do that and what we did is we we took chunks of the songs
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that I wanted to do and we saw how we could almost make it like a three-act
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play within the show and the way we were kind of stages different sections of the
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show to tell a story even further than it would tell on its own so it really
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takes the audience to really take in the lyrics of the way we were and then when
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we infuse it with another song it really leads you down this place you didn't
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know you're gonna go but you're really happy you went there yeah I love that
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yeah I love that I think when as performers if we feel it then hopefully
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the audience does that's the key to it don't you think I think so are there
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besides the way we were there other songs that just really have touched you
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personally as you've begun to go deeper and work on them other than oh wow I
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always love that song is it been something that you've that's really
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currently affected you positively in your life? I think one of the most poignant songs, they're all poignant, but one, I just had a rehearsal
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the other day with my musical director Doyle Neumeier who put all these amazing arrangements together And when I was singing on my way to you it it really is just being
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in that present moment and staying there because my life has taken lots of
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different turns but the song is always so meaningful no matter where I am in my
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life because I look at it that I don't regret anything and it's taking me to
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where I am today. So every time I sing it, it's, it's just a revelation to be grateful for
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So it's amazing. You just gave me, see, this is what I love. This is what I love about when we
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converse like this, because this, you just gave me chills by what you said, because I think so
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many of us, and I'll speak about myself because everyone has their own journey. For me, I agree
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with you and I resonate with that because if we don't go at different types of our journey in our
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life it's happening for reasons right and it's it's opportunity to experience to enjoy to feel
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and there can be pain and hurt and challenge but it's how we choose to respond and react to it how
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we choose to evolve and grow and learn as human beings so I love that you said that because like
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you said wherever you're on your journey it's still powerful for you yeah and
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you're bringing something new to it now because of maybe where you've grown as a
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human being and as an artist as a vocalist so I love that and that's what
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I think is so wonderful about music in general is because it really is a
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powerful tool absolutely there's nothing like it now you have obviously you
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mentioned the music director and your director do you have any other instrumentalists with you yes I have my bass player boots Malison and my drummer
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Sebo Kanani and they're also the original they're the original trio who
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worked on this show from the beginning with my musical director and with Will so
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they're on the album and so I'm excited that we're all gonna be together this
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oh so you recorded an album you didn't know I didn't know I brought you one so
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So it's, yeah, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, the songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman
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I recorded it live at the Iridium. So... Well, I'm sorry I missed that, but now I know
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That's okay. Yeah, yeah. So did you record the album first, or did you...
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No, the show was first. The show started at Feinstein 54 Below Then I brought it to the Iridium to do I knew I wanted to record it but I also knew it needed to be live I didn want to just
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do each song in the studio I wanted to because the audience is such a big part
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of this show of how they react to the songs and also singing to the audience
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it's my heart and soul and I get to relate relate that to the audience so
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So, and then they give it back to me. So, it's so important
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It's that give and take. It's a give and take. And that comes across on the album
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So, it keeps the life of the show going. And I'm also celebrating that
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And coming here after 30 years. So, to Don't Tell Mama. My first time I performed here was 30 years ago
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Isn't that cool? That is fantastic. I can't even believe it, 30 years ago
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It's insane. Yeah, but look, it's like it's full circle. It is full circle
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The past meets the present and continues to reflect into the future. Yeah
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And I love, and I'm glad that you educated me because being newer to the scene, I haven't been here, you know, 30 years
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And some of the things also that I miss along the way of because of interviewing numerous people
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I really love that you brought that up because it brings so much more to the story and to the show
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And so this is really kind of like a homecoming for you. Absolutely, yeah
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I'm so grateful to Sidney Meyer at Don't Tell Mama. We love Sidney. We love Sidney
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And yeah, because he was just, yes, right away. I was figuring out where to bring this show
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also working with my PR management, Ralph Lampkin. He was a very instrumental
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Oh, hi, Ralph. Hi, Ralph. We love Ralph. I know. I love Ralph. He's so great
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And he was instrumental in talking to Sydney and just making this all happen
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So it's exciting. It's exciting. It is exciting. And I applaud you for your growth, for your artistry, for continuing to show up as an artist
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and put your voice out there, your talent. but really your heart
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I really, I value that in you, so thank you. Thank you. And I hope everyone that has not seen the show
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or if you have seen the show and you can't get enough of it, please come back on Friday, March 8th, 7 p.m. here at Don't Tell Mama
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because it's between yesterday and tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you
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