Next up in LTV Studio’s “Summer Songbook by the Sea” cabaret series is “Beyond Blue Moon — And Before the Broken Hart,” a performance by Eric Yves Garcia and Maria Abous. Produced and hosted by David Alpern, the show will be presented on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
For those who think “Hart” is a misprint (an unlikely misperception for cabaret and Broadway aficionados), the program is inspired in part by Richard Linklater’s 2025 film “Blue Moon,” which starred Ethan Hawke in an Oscar-nominated turn as the lyricist Lorenz Hart, pictured, heartbroken, in the wake of his rejection by his longtime writing partner, Richard Rodgers.
Together, Rodgers and Hart created more than 500 songs, including “Falling in Love With Love,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” and “Isn’t It Romantic?” The evening will include a single song with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, who succeeded Hart as Rodgers’s partner in 1943 with the wildly successful “Oklahoma!”
Recipient of the Margaret Whiting Award and a Bistro Award for singer-instrumentalist, Garcia recently won the Donald F. Smith Award of the Mabel Mercer Foundation during its annual cabaret convention at Jazz at Lincoln Center. A protege of Jean-Claude Baker, Josephine Baker’s adopted son, he has frequently performed at Jean-Claude’s French bistro in Manhattan, Chez Josephine; had a two-year residency at the Pierre Hotel, and sings on the water for the Silver Seas Line.
Abous has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, The Triad, and Birdland. “Crescendo” (2021), her first album, re-imagines classic jazz and theater standards as love songs from a mother to a child. Her second CD, “Merry Little Christmas” (2025), “brings an ethereal twist to Christmas classics with the timeless allure of Grace Kelly, the vocal warmth of Frank Sinatra, and a heart all her own,” according to the Daily Front Row.
A Sag Harbor resident, Alpern has had a distinguished career in journalism and broadcasting. Starting as a New York correspondent for United Press International, he went on to become a writer and senior editor at Newsweek magazine. As the host of the weekly radio program “Newsweek on Air” for more than three decades, he interviewed such luminaries as Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Graham, Walter Cronkite, Robert Caro, John le Carre, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein. His name will also be familiar to readers of The Star’s Books page; he has written book reviews here for many years.
General admission tickets are $80, reserved cocktail table seats, including a drink ticket, are $120, and guaranteed front row cafe table seats, which include bottle service, are $240.
For those who prefer jazz to cabaret, Hamptons JazzFest is bringing Ralph Moore and his quartet to the LTV stage tomorrow evening at 7:30. A tenor saxophonist, Moore is known for his strong tone, melodic improvisation, and deep connection to the hard-bop tradition. He has performed and recorded with Horace Silver, Roy Haynes, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, and the Tonight Show Band. Tomorrow’s show will feature both straight-ahead jazz and contemporary improvisation.
General admission is $40; a cocktail table seat with a drink ticket is $60. Students get in for $10.
