Lillias White: Divine Sass—A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan

Nobody stops a show like Broadway's Lillias White, who has built a career out of superpowered numbers in Once on This Island, Dreamgirls, How to Succeed…, The Life, Fela!, Hadestown and more. Her latest visit to 54 Below celebrates the release of her new album, a tribute to one of the finest jazz and pop singers of the 20th century: Sarah Vaughan, whose extraordinary range earned her two very different nicknames, "Sassy" and "the Divine One." The collection includes songs by artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstein, George Gershwin (“The Man I Love"), Erroll Garner ("Misty"), Tadd Dameron (“If You Could See Me Now") and even Vaughan herself. The music director is Mathis Picard, with whom White has been developing the project for years. (In a laudable effort to make cabaret more accessible, 54 Below offers subsidized $15 tickets, with no minimum, for those of limited economic means.)