Our Sinatra: A Musical Celebration

Our Sinatra: A Musical Celebration is a revue built from the songs of Frank Sinatra. It has no plot and no characters. Three singers perform as themselves, take turns with the numbers and talk to the audience between songs, and none of them tries to impersonate Sinatra. The evening runs 90 minutes with no intermission.

The 2026 production is a 12-week limited engagement at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater on the Upper West Side, produced by Jack Lewin. It is a revival of the revue that first played in 1999. As of October 2026, it reunites the three people who created the show, Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines and Hilary Kole, and they also star in it.

Going Bacharach, a second revue from the same producer, shares the theater. The two shows play in rotation, so the calendar alternates between them.

There is no new score here. The material is the Frank Sinatra songbook, which the show surveys in order of mood: ballads first, then 1950s saloon and torch songs, then 1960s swing. Dozens of songs fit into the 90 minutes, and many of them arrive in medleys rather than as full numbers. Titles reported from the production include A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, Come Fly with Me, Fly Me to the Moon, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Lady Is a Tramp, The Way You Look Tonight and Night and Day.

Eric Comstock hosts from the piano and accompanies the singers, joined by a bassist. As of October 2026, the three singers divide the evening this way: Christopher Gines, a baritone, takes Ol' Man River. He uses the hand and arm gestures people associate with Sinatra, but he is not doing an impression. Hilary Kole sings I'm a Fool to Want You, a song Sinatra co-wrote. Comstock sings Everything Happens to Me with an extra verse written decades after Sinatra first recorded it, and he and Kole share Time After Time as a duet. Angel Eyes is paired with One for My Baby in a medley.

The talk between songs is personal rather than a history lesson. As of October 2026, Gines speaks about Sinatra's voice, Kole tells of her father phoning Sinatra from Australia, and Comstock recalls his Midwestern childhood. Kole is the daughter of Robert Kole, a Broadway performer of the 1950s.

The evening builds to a long medley of more than two dozen songs that ends with the audience singing New York, New York, which Sinatra released in 1980. The trio then returns for an encore of Put Your Dreams Away, sung a cappella. Sinatra used that song to close his radio show.

The sound on stage is three voices with a piano and a bass, in a house of 145 seats. The bass chair rotates among several players.

For the original Off-Broadway production, Alan Moyer designed the sets, Jeffrey Nellis the lighting and Matt Berman the sound.

The revue began as a cabaret act at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room in August 1999. Pianist Eric Comstock conceived it, and Comstock, Christopher Gines and Hilary Kole performed it. Producer Jack Lewin saw the act and brought it to the Blue Angel Theatre, where it became a commercial production Off-Broadway. Performances at the Blue Angel began on December 8, 1999, and the official opening was December 19, 1999. For that version, the selection favored lesser-known Sinatra recordings over his biggest hits.

The last Blue Angel performance was on August 12, 2000. The next night the show moved to The Reprise Room, a newly built performance space of about 140 seats inside the restaurant Dillon's. The 1,000th performance was a Sunday matinee there on May 5, 2002, and the original run closed on July 28, 2002. In all, the original New York run, across the Algonquin, the Blue Angel and the Reprise Room, gave 1,096 performances.

The trio changed over the years. By July 2001 the regular singers were Tom Postilio, Hilary Kole and Ronnie Whyte, and in May 2002 they were Paul Greenwood, Hilary Kole and Tom Postilio. Tony DeSare, a pianist and singer who moved to New York in 1998, also performed in the show. After the original run it toured the country twice with Columbia Artists, in 2002 and 2006, visiting performing arts centers.

The revue moved to Birdland, at 315 West 44th Street, in November 2003. It played 142 performances there and closed on March 14, 2004, with Kole, DeSare and Adam James in the cast. A return engagement at the Songbook Theatre at Broadway Comedy Club, 318 West 53rd Street, officially opened on November 20, 2007. Birdland hosted the revue again in 2024. Regional engagements took it to the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, the Empire Theatre in San Antonio, the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia and Guild Hall in East Hampton. In New York it also returned to the Oak Room at the Algonquin and to Feinstein's at the Regency.

An anniversary concert edition played 54 Below on February 10, 2026. Eric Comstock, Harmony Keeney and Lucas Beltran performed, with the bassist Marco Panascia. The current engagement began previews on September 11, 2026, and opened on September 15, 2026. As of October 2026, it is still running.