The Green Room 42

The depths of Stephen Sondheim's musical-theater catalogue have hardly gone unplumbed in recent decades, either onstage or in concert. But in their ever-evolving tribute to St. Steve, Bligh Voth and Joel DeCandio bring freshness to the catalog with a smartly calibrated mix of familiar favorites (such as "Johanna," "The Miller's Son" and "Unworthy of Your Love") and relative obscurities, including several that Sondheim wrote for film and television. The performers' complementary styles—she's a versatile dynamo with an expressive range as wide as her vocal one; he's a smooth crooner with a gentle air—bring out exroverted and introverted sides of the Master's compositional voice. Music director Nolan Bonvoulir provides spirited and inventive accompaniment. 

For nearly four decades, the idiosyncratic musical trio BETTY, comprising Alyson Palmer and sisters Amy and Elizabeth Ziff, has pumped out Go-Go's–style alt-pop with a theatrical bent. In their February residence at the Green Room 42, they share favorites from their long career (including "Did You Tell Her" and the theme song for Showtime's The L Word) along with songs from their newest album, EAT. 

Davis Gaines was a replacement Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera before graduating to the masked man himself—a role he went on to play for 2,000 performances on Broadway and on tour—and originated the leading role in Whistle Down the Wind, Andrew Lloyd Webber's ill-fated 1996 collaboration with Jim Steinman. His classic romantic baritone remains a thing of beauty. In this too-rare NYC appearance, he sings a collection of love songs for Valentine's week, accompanied on piano by John Olearchick.

Recovering Broadway actor John Hill, an original Hairspray nice kid and Boy from Oz heel, has matured into a comedian and muscle-daddy Instathot; his résumé includes a long and fruitful collaboration with Bravo macher Andy Cohen, first as a producer of Watch What Happens: Live! and now as Cohen's daily radio cohost on SiriusXM. He also knows how to put an entertaining club act together (as he has often helped do for Natalie Joy Johnson). In his latest visit to the Green Room 42, he shares acid-edged dispatches about gay dating, sober living and reality TV, studded with sometimes naughty original comedic songs.

Understudies, alternates and standbys get their momeents in the sun in Stephen DeAngelis's longevous cabaret series, which began in 2003 and has so far shone a spotlight on more than 1,200 performers. The February edition features Reese Britts, Francisco J. Gonzalez, Gianna Harris, Cameron Anika Hill, Marcus M. Martin, Juliette Ojeda, Sydney Parra, Sean Stack and Olivia Valli (a recent National Tour Elpheba in Wicked and, yes, Frankie's granddaughter). Rachel Dean is the musical director and accompanist.

The shameless drag legend and nightlife pioneer Lady Bunny hops back to the Green Room with another smart and delightfully offensive solo show packed with raunchy song parodies, topical comedy and savagely hilarious takedowns of other drag queens. Bunny knows her mind and isn't afraid to say what's on it.