The Off Off Broadway Review - July 2004 NYC

with Scott Joplin and meandered chronologically through Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, then finally George Gershwin.

The songs fluidly built into each other; the facts revealed were mostly interesting; and Birnbaum could certainly play piano aptly. However, the act could have been much tighter; there could have been more humor and stage presence. Yet, it was admirable that Birnbaum had all the songs and all of his patter memorized, and the songs picked painted a pleasant picture of the early 1900s.

Patriotically, Birnbaum wore a red, white, and blue-checkered jacket with blue pants and a white shirt, perhaps symbolizing how he was