LTV Studios is throwing a cocktail party. The Wainscott venue’s Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea cabaret series will host “A Swell-egant, Elegant Party,” a performance by Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, on Saturday evening at 7:30.
The production is produced, written, and hosted by Laurence Maslon, a professor at N.Y.U.’s graduate acting program, host and producer of “Broadway to Main Street” on the NPR station WLIW-FM, and the author of 15 books, including “Hitchcocktails: Lethal Libations Inspired by the Master of Suspense” and “I’ll Drink to That: Broadway Cocktails.” Hence the availability during the program of craft cocktails, mixed onstage by Maslon.
The evening will include music written by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Noel Coward, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, and many others, performed by Comstock and Fasano, who are partners in life as well as onstage. Maslon will keep things flowing with the kind of commentary one would expect from a musical theater aficionado.
“Our August 1 event at the Hamptons Summer Songbook is more than just a concert — it’s an invitation to a party,” Maslon said. “Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, and I are throwing a ‘swell-egant, elegant party,’ as Cole Porter wrote in ‘High Society.’ It’s an immersive and intimate evening, with specially crafted cocktails and a dizzying array of songs and stories about the great parties on Broadway and in Hollywood in the Golden Age.”
The New Yorker has praised Comstock’s “expert musicianship and joie de vivre,” while The New York Times has called Fasano “a lyrically sensitive interpreter” and described the duo as “smart, funny, and utterly delightful.” Their new CD, “Painting the Town,” featuring Houston Person on tenor saxophone, won the 2026 Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) award for major recording of the year.
The duo has won nine MAC awards, five New York Bistro awards, and the New York Nightlife award. Recipients of the Donald F. Smith Award from the Mabel Mercer Foundation for their contributions to the world of cabaret, they have performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Birdland Jazz Club, and the Neue Galerie Cabaret at Cafe Sabarsky series in New York City, as well as the Saratoga Jazz Festival, London’s PizzaExpress, and Italy’s Monteverdi Tuscany.
General admission is $80, cocktail table seating with a drink ticket is $120, and guaranteed front row cafe table seating with bottle service is $240.
For those whose taste runs more to hot dogs than cocktails, a one-night-only performance of “Feltman: World’s First Hot Dog,” an original play written and performed by Michael Quinn, will happen Friday at 7:30. Peter Michael Marino will direct.
Charles Feltman, a German immigrant and baker, invented the first hot dog on Coney Island in 1867 as a way for beachgoers to enjoy sausages on a sliced bun without plates or silverware. First sold along the dunes from a cart, Feltman’s “Coney Island Red Hots” were so popular that they led to Feltman’s Ocean Pavilion, which by the 1920s covered an entire city block.
Along came Nathan Handwerker, a longtime Feltman bun slicer who quit and opened his own hot dog shop nearby. While his claim to have invented the hot dog was fraudulent, Nathan’s Famous charted its own path to fame and fortune.
Quinn, a Coney Island native, said, “This show is part autobiographical, part history, and part fantasy. There are many elements in it that are relevant today, like entrepreneurship and immigration. Hot dogs and amusement parks were invented in Coney Island, and I think people who are from New York appreciate the history.”
General admission is $40, cafe tables for two are $90, and tables for four are $180.
