Richard Skipper Celebrates The Wee That Was...Frday the 13th 2026

Corinna Sowers Adler is the 2026 recipient of the Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist and Educator and has been nominated for the special Excellence in Theatre Education Tony Award every year for a decade. She made her solo New York Cabaret Debut in 2010 at the Laurie Beechman Theater in “Stories…A Cabaret”. Since then, Corinna has been in high demand, performing solo shows in NYC at the Triad, the Duplex Cabaret, Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, Metropolitan Room, Feinstein’s/54 BELOW, The Green Room 42, and the majestic Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center where she debuted the concert series “Music Over Manhattan”. Corinna was honored to make her Lincoln Center debut as a featured singer on The 24th Annual Cabaret Convention held at Jazz at Lincoln Center presented by The Mabel Mercer Foundation and has appeared several times on the convention since then. She has performed her concert entitled “Corinna Sowers Adler in: Something Beautiful” around the US and in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center to rave reviews. Her most recent show entitled “All That Matters” has been called “an example of perfect cabaret” by Stephen Mosher of BroadwayWorld Corinna hosts and produces the Music at the Mansion™ series and was nominated for the 2012 and 2014 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards in the “Best Female Vocalist” and “Best Host of a Variety Show” categories and the 2020 MAC awards for Best Female Vocalist. She and her husband, Nicholas Adler also created and produced the series “Cabaret on the Hudson” in the Irvington Town Hall theatre in Irvington, NY and “NiCori Presents” which produces Cabaret shows with NiCori’s Arts Partners around the United States as well as the “New Jersey Cabaret Festival” which celebrates performers with a connection to the Garden State. LORNA DALLAS’ long,distinguished and varied career began at 17, from winning a nationwide talent contest in New York to the Metropolitan National Opera Company to starring in Show Boat in London with Dame Cleo Laine; following this record breaking production (awarded a special Tony® as Outstanding Foreign Production), she had her own weekly BBC series and numerous TV specials in Europe, Hong Kong and Australia. She starred in the London production of Kismet (Wright and Forrest asked for her to star as Marsinah); UK leading roles also include Ratepayer’s Iolanthe, Side by Side by Sondheim, and the UK premiere of Closer Than Ever. Lorna was guest soloist with major orchestras worldwide from NY’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Cadogan Hall, Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall, Honolulu Bowl to Brisbane Concert Hall. Acting credits include the acclaimed film United 93, and Inside Out, plus various TV series in the UK, including a recurring role in “Many Wives of Patrick.” Her recording of Rainbows with a 50 piece orchestra was acclaimed… “Lorna Dallas is one of the finest singers of her generation” by Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth. Her CD, The Girl I Knew, based on the music of Novello & Kern was awarded CD of the Year. Singer-actor Goldie Dver began her career in the late 1960s after arriving in New York City from her native Philadelphia. Since, she has had an extensive performing career in nightclubs in New York and across the US. Her solo cabarets include After Today, Woman On The Stage and Back in Mama’s Arms. In 2002, Dver, James Beaman and David Maiocco won the MAC Award for their revue, Crazy World: Songs of Leslie Bricusse. She is also a veteran of musical theatre, and was a regular personality on the long-running Joey Reynolds Show “The Jewish Hour” on WOR-AM Radio. Dver is also a makeup artist, with a second career at Smashbox cosmetics. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, Dver took time off from show business to concentrate on her healing. Now cancer-free, she is an advocate for women’s health. Follow Goldie i on Instagram: @goldiedvernyc Michael Kirk Lane is an award-winning cabaret artist, having most recently won the 2020 Manhattan Association of Cabaret Award for Male Musical Comedy Performer. Along with 3 previous MAC nominations, Lane has been nominated for 10 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards, winning in 2018 for Best Show. https://www.michaelkirklane.com Clover Welsh (aka Lady Clover Honey) is a Gender fluid entertainer, actor, comedian and filmmaker. She's graced notable hotspot stages from The Copacabana, Caroline's, and The Pyramid Club. She even conducted an orchestra and sing-along at a sold-out Carnegie Hall! Before TV's DRAG RACE, Clover was putting Drag on TV as a news correspondent on "Under the Pink Carpet" reporting on the Nightlife scene on WNYE, the official television station of New York City. She also replaced Lady Bunny in the hit comedy "When Joey Married Bobby" on off-Broadway. As an indie Filmmaker, she wrote, produced and starred in award-winning films including "Modest Male Exposure" and the Horror cult flick "Drag to Death."    • CLOVER WELSH   aka Lady Clover Honey - Reel