CABARET

 

Lyne Tremblay, The Cabaret Diva and Femme Fatale of Canada...                                               By Maximillien de Lafayette, Editor-in-Chief.  lafayette@monthlyherald.com

Lyne Tremblay is de facto, Canada's most sophisticated, elegant and captivating cabaret Diva and  "Femme Fatale". Her voice is an explosion and implosion of warmth, vocal virtuosity, seduction, truthful inner feelings and a magical "Un Je Ne Sais Quoi?". You look at Lyne and the scent of a Parisian Diva of La Belle Epoque or "Les Annees Folles" breathes over you. You look at Lyne Tremblay, and Montmartre, Les Grands Boulevards, the dialogues of Jean Cocteau and the whispers of adventurers, raconteurs, charming Parisian gigolos, mysteries of Rue Le Pic, La Madelaine and the lights and shadows of Le Chat Noire materialized before your eyes. You listen to Lyne Tremblay and the Seine and Les Ponts de Paris begin to embrace you and enrobe you with nostalgia, forbidden thoughts and musical enchantment. This lady can sing! She is charmingly dangerous when she looks at you, when she begins to send you those romantically crafted whispers and unconsciously submerge you in the ocean of her captivating feminine elegance and luxurious voice. She is sensible, yet powerful. She is highly sophisticated, yet down to earth. She is demanding, yet she is easy to get along with. Those qualities shaped her mesmerizing persona on stage. She appeals to the highly educated audience and to all those who want to sip life from the bottle, as well. In brief, she is the perfect cabaret singer!

 

 

 

 

 

Grande Dame Tremblay  is probably best known in Canada,  as "Cassandra" in Andrew Lloyd Weber's blockbuster musical, "Cats". Others still remember and applaud the role of Sally Bowles she played in the Paris Production of the Kander & Ebb musical "Cabaret", directed by Jerome Savary.  And a larger audience still cherish and admire her magnificent performance in "Anita". And everybody  recalls Ms Tremblay's superb performance  in the Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story". In addition to her theatrical performances, Ms Tremblay has appeared many times on both the big and small screen. Her television credits include "Street Legal", "E.N.G.", "Cover Me", "The Newsroom" and "Just a Kid". She can also be seen as a principal player in  several  films, to name a few: "Atlantic City", "Night Magic" and "April One".

On the stage, you see a black grand piano, a red rose in a vase, a black chair, a black screen, a fedora, and a red feather boa draped carelessly... The pianist arrives in tails, and beret. He plays a flourish... then she appears... a beautiful woman dressed in a style identified with a different era... her voice evokes the hazy jazz clubs of Europe...she moves with the grace and range of the greatest of the cabaret's anonymous expatriate divas. She is Lynne Tremblay.." This is what, so correctly wrote a cabaret connoisseur.

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