The Ladies Who Brunch

The Ladies Who Brunch at Club Café, Boston’s popular weekend divertissement, returns on October 24 with a special Men's Edition. Come and indulge yourself in a feast for your senses with renowned cabaret artists John Abernathy, Brian De Lorenzo, and Robert Saoud. Sit back with one of our classic cocktails and be regaled with soaring melodies and brilliant comedy while dining from our a la carte menu featuring traditional brunch entrees as well as lighter fare like fruit bowls, salads, and appetizers. Food and beverages not included in the ticket price. John Abernathy is a singer, actor, and pianist whose performances celebrate the classic music of Broadway and the Great American Songbook. He was featured in the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention at Lincoln Center in a tribute to Broadway composer Jerry Herman, sharing the stage with Lee Roy Reams, Michael Feinstein, Marilyn Maye, and Mr. Herman himself. Praised by Talkin' Broadway for his "instantly likeable sound, refreshing and invigorating," John received an Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Award nomination for Best Male Cabaret Performer for A Cock-Eyed Optimist at Club Café in Boston. In addition to touring internationally as a pianist and soloist with Up with People, John has released two solo recordings, Look Straight Ahead and Live Out Loud! Learn more at www.john-abernathy.com Brian De Lorenzo is an award-winning singer, actor and songwriter equally at home in nightclubs, concert halls, and theatres. Named Talent America "Performer of the Year” and Edge Media Network's "Top Ten of New York Cabaret," he is a two-time Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) “Recording of the Year Award” Nominee for his first “big-band” album Toast of the Town Vol. 1 and his first album, Found Treasures. His latest album, Toast of the Town Vol. 2 was released in April in Club Café’s Moonshine Room. This October, Brian will perform on the final night of the New York Cabaret Convention in a concert called “With a Song in My Heart - A Cornucopia of Entertainment,” hosted by KT Sullivan. Brian has appeared at The Pheasantry Jazz Club (London); The Palm, and Incanto (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico); The Iridium, The Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama, Eighty-Eight’s, the New York Cabaret Convention, and the International Cabaret Festival in New York; the Chicago Cabaret Convention; Scullers Jazz Club and Club Café (Boston); three Boston Cabaret Festivals; the Cape Cod Cabaret Festival; The Boston Opera House, and multiple times at CabaretFest! Provincetown. He has been a featured performer with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Parkway Concert Orchestra, and the Little Apple Big Band. More at www.briandelorenzo.com Robert Saoud most recently appeared in Come from Away at North Shore Music Theatre. In January he will reprise his role of Mr. McBee in the Adam Theatre production of The Library Lion. Elsewhere he has performed in the National Tour of GROUCHO: A Life in Review, Chico Marx opposite Gabe Kaplan as Groucho. He has also appeared at The Huntington Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Trinity Repertory, Merrimack Repertory, The Lyric Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre, The Umbrella Stage, New Repertory, Boston Playwrights, Overture Productions, and American Classics, and was a cast member of Boston's long running production of Shear Madness. He is a Fellow of the 2000 Eugene O'Neil Cabaret Symposium and has performed numerous cabarets in New York and New England.