Vocalist and Performer Anita Michael in Her Timely New Show FOOLIN’ MYSELF A Musical Journey Exploring “Little White Lies” and How they Grow

The Green Room 42

Presents

Vocalist and Performer Anita Michael

in Her Timely New Show

FOOLIN’ MYSELF

A Musical Journey Exploring “Little White Lies” and How they Grow

Directed by Miriam Fond, with Musical Direction/Piano Jon Delfin

& Bassist Boots Maleson

LIVE STREAMING IS AVAILABLE

The Green Room 42 is pleased to present vocalist and performer Anita Michael in her new and timely show, Foolin’ Myself with performances on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7 pm and Saturday, October 25^th at 1 pm. She is ably assisted by veteran director Miriam Fond, accomplished musical director, pianist and arranger Jon Delfin, and noted bassist Boots Maleson. Anita Michael wonders why she feels like Alice, from “Through the Looking Glass” in the current political climate where lying is so prevalent it’s as though it has become the national condition. Through songs by Christine Lavin, Dave Frischberg, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, Mel Brooks, and Gruseki and Turner she explores, “Little White Lies,” and how they grow.

The Green Room 42 is located at 570 10^th Avenue in Manhattan. To learn more and purchase tickets: https://thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/show/details/dlgDAVSAgVy1TImtxbFv/1760742000000?event_id=duq9Hb4rQhp3ACpr6EgN

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

ANITA MICHAEL, Vocalist and Performer – For more than 40 years, Anita Michael has performed to sold out houses at leading clubs around New York City, including Upstairs at Greene Street, Judy’s, and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. She has performed her shows,” A Hairdresser looks at her roots,” “I never know when to say When,” “Just Getting Started,” and her newest show, “Fooling’ Myself”, where she asks the question,”Why do I feel like Alice in, “Through the Looking Glass, ” directed by Miriam Fond, director of more than one hundred Off Broadway shows and cabaret acts. Anita’s vibrant repertoire includes jazz standards, Broadway show tunes, and specialty cabaret material by Francesca Blumenthal, Murray Grand, Dave Frishberg, Tony Lang, and Robert Grusecki and Anya Turner, to name a few. She’s delighted to be sharing the stage with her brilliant musical director and arranger, Jon Delfin, and the incomparable Boots Maleson on bass. On her love of the intimacy of cabaret performance, Anita says she loves sharing the joys and foibles of the human condition, and right now we all need to laugh a little at ourselves.

MIRIAM FOND, Director – Miriam Fond has directed more than one hundred plays and musicals throughout the U.S. and Canada. She is best known for the musical revue, What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This?, which played in New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Vancouver. She has worked with Brooke Shields, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Celeste Holm, and many others, and directed numerous original plays at Lincoln Center Theatre at Noon, (where she was Artistic Director) and the Drama Tree (an off-off Broadway experimental theater group. Miriam has a Master of Arts from UCLA and is currently teaching musical theater performance classes.

JON DELFIN, Musical Director/Pianist/Arranger – Jon Delfin started playing the piano during the Eisenhower administration, and has accompanied concert artists, cabaret singers, musical theater, and circuses ever since. He arranged and conducted Aaron Morishita’s Bistro-winning CD “Singing Sondheim,” available via CDBaby.com. Away from the piano, he creates and edits puzzles for several outlets, and his success in crossword solving has resulted in appearances in the documentary “Wordplay,” “60 Minutes,” and Guinness World Records 2017.

BOOTS MALESON, Bassist – For over 30 years, Boots Maleson has been one of the top in-demand bassists in New York City in nearly every genre of music.  He has worked with such jazz greats as Milt Jackson, Elvin Jones, Jaki Byard, Archie Shepp, Kenny Barron, Dexter Gordon, Stanley Cowell, Jack Wilson, and Benny Carter.  He has played in the Big Bands of Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Alexander, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.  He has performed for many years with jazz artist Ronny Whyte, Daryl Sherman, and Marlene Verplanck. He has played in the orchestra for such Broadway shows as City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, State Fair, Little Me, A Class Act, Urinetown, 42^nd Street, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Sweeney Todd.  He has played in the Dicapo Opera orchestra and accompanied Jessye Norman.    He has accompanied Cabaret artists Baby Jane Dexter, Christine Andreas, Cynthia Crane, Marieanne Meringolo and Leslie Orofino. For over 25 years Boots has been the bassist in ensembles led by the legendary bassist Ron Carter.

ABOUT THE GREEN ROOM 42 – Founded in 2017, and located in the heart of the theatre district in YOTEL Times Square, The Green Room 42 is Broadway’s newest, most spacious, and funkiest cabaret club. Hailed by the New York Times as “Broadway’s Off-Night Hotspot,” our curated nightlife experience features your favorite Broadway stars in live performance, and a delicious menu of food and drink. The Green Room 42 opens the doors of hospitality to the nightclub stage while providing value and accessibility to the New York theatre community.

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