Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

Fully revised updated and expanded edition
of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner
that sold more than 10,000 copies


Cultural history plus celebrity anecdotes


Up-to-the-minute look at the current
New York cabaret scene


Intimate Nights is the definitive history of cabaret as it evolved in New York City in the years after World War II. But that doesnt mean it's dry and academic. Good heavens, no! Settle in for racy tales of nightlife, revealed in interviews with dozens of the people who lived it: Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, Mabel Mercer, Bette Midler, and many more. Author James Gavin has tracked down rare, early stories about the legends who came out of New York nightclubsand that means Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Nichols and May, Johnny Mathis, Carol Burnett, Lenny Bruce, among others. Part cultural history, part celebrity gossip, Intimate Nights offers an intimate look at the creatures of the nightclubs.