One regular act is Big Duck, whose bald fedora-ed lead singer wears pleated pants and painted ties and sings classics like "Dust My Broom" in a voice like John Travolta's.

This primarily student-run ensemble sings pop tunes, such as Rolling in the Deep by Adele, but also classics like All My Loving by the Bettles.

For most of the 1980s, Salazar sang Hawaiian classics with the Royal Hawaiian Band and performed at venues in Waikiki and Japan.

Amy Spanger, who plays Lois Lane and gets to sing such classics as "Always True to You (in My Fashion)," is putting on makeup, her cropped blond hair dramatically different from that of the done-up chorus girl she is about to become.

All the contestants sang classics from world icons Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Billy Joel, among others, as well as Filipino hitmakers like Didith Reyes and Rey Valera.

Gael Schaefer, a soprano, will sing such classics as "Father's a Drunkard and Mother Is Dead" and "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now," accompanied by James Keller, the show's musical director, on the piano and a 19th-century harmonium.

She sang several classics, such as Georgia on My Mind, Midnight Train to Georgia and At Last.

And he is drawing audiences to a local shopping mall where, at his two-month-old Cafe Theater, he is bringing back old radio performers to sing cherished classics.

-An important local tradition usually associated with Urfa and Mardin is the "Sıra Gecesi", where groups of young men gather at each other's home following a preestablished sequence, especially in winter evenings, to play Ottoman Instruments such as Kanun Ud and Bağlama, sing regional classics and to eat together.

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine commented that "it was a hoot to see her [Madonna] strap on an electric guitar and sing classics like 'Burning Up'."