 
Jazz Cabaret
From the age of three, when I first sang "Mary Had a Little
Lamb" into my father's brand new tape recorder, I have
always loved to sing. And although that number, along with
"You Are My Sunshine" ( a duet sung with my father) and "It's
Raining, It's Pouring" (sung by my mother to soothe me
when she shampooed my hair in the tub), are still in my
repertoire, the range of my musical tastes has expanded
over the years. When I'm not singing, I listen. Other singers
have been my best teachers and I have been strongly influenced by an eclectic group
of performers including Ethel Merman (I memorized the entire Broadway cast recording
of "Gypsy" at age ten!), the early Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Billy Holiday, Nina
Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, and Frank Sinatra. 'To this
list I would add contemporaries such as Rebecca Parris, Wesla Whitfield, Carol
Sloane, and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
My goal in performing is to communicate the beauty of the music and the message of
the lyric. Ideally, I like to perform in small, intimate settings where I can really connect
with the audience. To me, cabaret is just that - communicating in an intimate fashion.
Since so many of my "teachers" have been jazz singers, my music and style have
been naturally influenced by that genre. My repertoire however, includes Broadway
show tunes, jazz standards, rock and roll and blues.
Calendar
Upcoming Appearances:
March is Cabaret month. I hope you have or will take advantage of our weekend of festivities. You have the opportunity of seeing me and many others on
March 13, 14, and 15th.
Pamela - On Demand!
True to its title, this show allows you, the audience, to choose which song you'd like me to sing. The evening doesn't stop with me, however. Your ticket allows you to see several other singers for a full evening of entertainment until 10:00 PM if you wish.
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
7:00 PM
Doug Hammer on Piano
Blacksmith House
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle Street in Cambridge
(Validated parking for Charles Hotel and University Garage)
It is likely that this show will sell out so if you're interested,
please get your tickets now!
To purchase tickets go to:
Prior Appearances:
See Pamela in a reprise of her show -
Torch Songs and Other Hot Numbers!
Friday, March 24th at 7:30 PM
BOSTON ASSOCIATION OF CABARET ARTISTS
in a four day BACA Cabaret Celebration.
Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater, 255 Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville MA
Call 866-811-4111 for tickets and directions, or visit .
This show was SOLD OUT when it was performed on February 4th.
Don't miss it…reserve your seat now!
See Pamela perform in a special weekend of music and song:
Cabaret By the Sea
March 31, April 1, and April 2, 2006
Ogunquit, Maine
Featuring 7 wonderful cabaret artists in a series of shows
The performers are:
Michelle Currie, Kevin Douglass, Pamela Enders, Linette Miles, Alisa D. Miles, Alexia B. Motley, and Tony Perry with Tim Evans at the piano.
For more information please see .
Torch Songs and Other Hot Numbers
(the new and improved version!)
First performed four years ago to a standing-room-only audience, Torch Songs is a funny, poignant, and sassy evening of music featuring beloved standards from the Great American Songbook, Broadway show-stoppers, and hilarious comic numbers. Pamela has added many new songs for this special performance with Joe Della Penna at the piano.
Show Reviews:
CABARET JOY
The face of cabaret has changed. It used to be shrouded in mystery-in out-of-the-way, smoke filled cafes where performers crooned until the wee hours and patrons drank their scotch and sodas in the dark. Now that the smoke has disappeared, more often than not, the booze has, too. Venues like the "cabaret connection" at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (In Harvard Square) offer a "theatrical" evening of cabaret. The shows may have a theme; some have a script, and often there's little difference between "cabaret" and a "theater" evening like Elaine Stritch's one-woman, Tony award winning performance in which she held forth (and told a few tales out of school) and sang her signature songs.
Pamela Enders' sparkling evening of torch songs last weekend combined her favorite music with touching memories, in a theatrical cabaret offering. Sweet stories of courtship were punctuated with witty remembrances and hilarious lyrics like the come-on from Sweet Charity, "Hey, Big Spender" (with one-man band Joe Della Penna on both keyboard and foot-pounding "organic" percussion) and Andy Razaf's cheeky "Handy Man"-with Enders channeling Peggy Lee and Mae West to regale us with what he can do for her front lawn.
Enders is such an elegant performer, with a sophisticated, soft, honey sound, that you're taken aback-and thoroughly amused-when she lets her hair down in a slightly naughty song like the Kander & Ebb teaser, "Arthur in the Afternoon" from And the World Goes Round. You would expect her French, and her Parisian vibrato, to be impeccable in Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose"-and it is!
Enders can break your heart with a love song to her late Labrador retriever and she gets way down, out of her normal range, for the funeral lament from Porgy and Bess. She puts a feminist spin on the Johnny Mercer standard, "Goody, Goody" and delivers a delicious parody, called "Hot Flash," of the Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' top-40 hit, "Heat Wave."
She opens the show with a classic Morton Gould/ Dorothy Fields number, "There Must Be Somethin' Better Than Love" and now we know. The only thing better than love is Enders singing about it.
For Theater Mirror
February, 2006
Beverly Creasey
Independent Reviewers
41 South Crescent Circuit
Boston, MA 02105
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